One of the highlights each week for us here at Financial News is the An Audience With profile. We get to sit down for a proper chat with some of finance’s biggest names, from the worlds of banking and trading to hedge funds and law.
There’s always a great range of talent on display, and this year has been no exception.
Here’s a reminder of some of our favourites from 2025 so far.
January
Rathbones CEO Paul Stockton: ‘We’re a bit more Middle England than Monaco’
Lazard Asset Management’s Jeremy Taylor: ‘The shape of the industry has changed permanently’
February
Bank of England director David Bailey: Cap on bankers’ bonuses was a bad idea
Houlihan Lokey CEO Scott Adelson: ‘This is a Goldilocks moment for us’
March
Natasha Harrison: ‘I made a career out of being adverse to Credit Suisse’
Euronext’s Stéphane Boujnah: ‘If things go wrong for crypto, we’ve a lot more to lose than FTX’
April
Barings boss Mike Freno on the art of the private markets deal
Sophie Kennedy: ‘Becoming CEO of a wealth manager at 33 didn’t faze me’
Natasha Harrison, Stéphane Boujnah, Emily Monastiriotis and Fahad Kamal are just a few of the famous faces to grace our pages this year
May
Barbara Pozdorovkina: ‘Crypto rules will unleash digital demand’
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Shawn Edwards: ‘At Bloomberg, the technologists are the rock stars’
June
Why Emily Monastiriotis’ 13-year-old told her to go for the top job at Simmons & Simmons
Goldman wealth boss: Clients should have ‘significant exposure’ to private assets
July
BlackRock’s James Charrington: ‘Sceptics felt active and index couldn’t live under one roof’
Phoenix Group’s Mike Eakins: ‘In the UK, we do an amazing job of talking ourselves down’
August
Goodwin’s John LeClaire: ‘Private equity people are the masters of the universe now’
Scott Bok: ‘I always wanted to work at a firm that felt small and elite’
September
Coutts’ Fahad Kamal: Being overweight US stocks is worth the risk
Baker Tilly boss Francesca Lagerberg: ‘You need big investments to do certain things’
