How are ‘bankrupt’ France’s borrowing costs still lower than ours? Markets Locked in a protracted political crisis over the extent of its indebtedness – and with its deficit running at over five per cent of GDP – France has earned itself the unwanted monikers of ‘the sick man of Europe’ and the ‘new Greece’. Despite these woes, its borrowing costs remain lower than the UK’s. Ali [...]
Nominations are open for the City AM Awards 2025 Business The City AM Awards are back for 2025 – on Tuesday 6 May at the Guildhall – and nominations are now open for the top leaders, trailblazers, entrepreneurs and innovators in the City. It’s the 16th year of the City AM Awards, first launched by City AM’s Harry Owen and Lawson Muncaster in 2010 to [...]
CT Group appoints Baroness Helena Morrissey as non-executive Business Sir Lynton Crosby's consulting firm CT Group has appointed Baroness Helena Morrissey as a non-executive director, City AM can exclusively reveal
‘Diversity makes good business sense’ says Bank of England’s Victoria Saporta October 18, 2023 Victoria Saporta wrote about her experience in central banking and regulation, and why diversity makes "good business sense".
Slow progress on sexism in the City as women still ‘battling’ to the top, MPs told October 17, 2023 Limited progress has been made on tackling sexism in the City of London, with women still “battling their way to the top”.
Baroness Morrissey: Give twice as many new funds to female managers September 11, 2023 Money managers in the city are under fire for a lacklustre record on gender equality today after a new report found progress in hiring female fund chiefs has stalled. Former chair of AJ Bell, Baroness Morrissey, has today urged firms to shift female representation up the agenda after a new report found that just 12.1 [...]
Is the CBI is “finished”? City grandee and AJ Bell chair Baroness Morrissey says so April 25, 2023 The crisis-hit CBI is “finished” after the organisation admitted it failed to sack workers who sexually harassed female colleagues, City boss Baroness Helena Morrissey has said. Firms have deserted the Confederation of British Industry (CBI) in their droves after two rape allegations and a series of claims of a toxic work culture surfaced, reported by [...]
City marks 50th anniversary of first female traders on floor of the London Stock Exchange March 27, 2023 Two “trading floor trailblazers” opened the London Stock Exchange to mark the 50th anniversary since the first women traders were admitted into the historic marketplace. Susan Shaw and Hilary Pearson, who began working on 26 March 1973, were among the first female stockbrokers in the London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) . They opened the day’s [...]
Pro-Brexit ‘Supermum’ forced out by Liz Truss after saying Boris Johnson ‘is in wrong job’ June 9, 2022 Pro-Brexit banker and now-former non-executive director of the Foreign Office Baroness Morrissey resigned yesterday, after Liz Truss reportedly suggested she would be sacked for comments made about the prime minister. Morrissey, mother to nine children and dubbed a ‘Supermum’, told LBC on Monday night that prime minister Boris Johnson was “just in the wrong job”, [...]
Baroness Helena Morrissey on the skills professionals need to thrive in a post-pandemic world October 8, 2021 Something which you can always rely on in the City is constant change. However, the changes born out of necessity over the last year or so have left many of us feeling disconcerted, admits Baroness Helena Morrissey. “In some ways [change] is a good thing,” said Helena. “It allows us to get used to adapting, [...]