An Audience With
Why Ron Kalifa wants to bring finance out of the analogue age
Brookfield’s vice-chair on why he’s targeting financial infrastructure, embracing AI, and bullish on London
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FN’s top interviews of the year so far
Our coveted An Audience With series has brought in some big names in finance in 2025
2 min read
Why Credit Agricole CIB’s new boss is doubling down on tradition
After 35 years at the French bank, Jean-François Balaÿ wants evolution, not revolution
5 min read
Coutts’ Fahad Kamal: Being overweight US stocks is worth the risk
The chief investment officer of private bank Coutts has adopted a more global approach, but hasn’t given up on the UK just yet
5 min read
Baker Tilly boss Francesca Lagerberg: ‘You need big investments to do certain things’
The head of professional services firm talks private equity, expansion and why accounting is still a great career
6 min read
An audience with Yann Le Pallec: ‘We live in a world of risk’
Volatile geopolitics is now one of investors’ biggest concerns, S&P Global Ratings’ president says
5 min read
Goodwin’s John LeClaire: ‘Private equity people are the masters of the universe now’
The veteran deals lawyer, who co-founded Goodwin’s private equity practice, says buyout executives are the new bond traders
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An Audience With Scott Bok: ‘I always wanted to work at a firm that felt small and elite’
As Japanese bank Mizuho continues with its takeover of trailblazing boutique Greenhill, its former chief executive reflects on the Darwinian sights he’s seen during his time on Wall Street
6 min read
Ares’ Mark Serocold: ‘There is nothing stopping us doing what Blackstone did in wealth’
Private credit giant’s Emea wealth boss has led onshore pushes into Italy and Switzerland
5 min read
Phoenix Group’s Mike Eakins: ‘In the UK, we do an amazing job of talking ourselves down’
The CIO on geopolitics, private markets and why Britain needs to do more to advertise its stability to international investors
5 min read
BlackRock’s James Charrington: ‘Sceptics felt active and index could not live under the same roof’
The BlackRock veteran on some of the landmark deals struck by the US asset manager and industry scepticism about its purchase of Barclays Global Investors
5 min read
EFG’s UK boss on ‘strategic’ hiring after Credit Suisse collapse
Christian Berchem says Swiss private bank has been winning market share from competitors in the UK where it is vying to become one of the top advisers
Kraken’s Arjun Sethi: Remote work will help us find the best talent
The co-CEO of Kraken discusses expansion plans, the hunt for acquisitions and why institutional adoption of digital assets is on the rise
Janus Henderson CEO: ‘This industry is really easy to be complacent in. That is not our culture’
Ali Dibadj helped the asset manager get over its post-merger woes. Now he has a plan to grow its footprint across private markets and active ETFs
Goldman wealth boss: Clients should have ‘significant exposure’ to private assets
The Wall Street bank wants to scale in the UK, Robert Mullane tells FN, despite an exodus of wealthy non-doms
Why Emily Monastiriotis’ 13-year-old told her to go for the top job at Simmons & Simmons
Simmons & Simmons’ managing partner grew up in a village on Corfu. Coming to England to become a lawyer was a culture shock. Now she says internationalising is the City law firm’s ‘biggest opportunity’
6 min read
Singer Capital’s Tim Cockroft: Spinning off AIM could boost London’s stock market
Cockroft has spent almost four decades at the coal face of London’s changing stock market. That has given him a unique perspective on how to fix it
6 min read
‘Big won’t always win’: Why Quilter Cheviot wants to be more like a private bank
Boss Andy McGlone says high-end planners running fewer accounts is the future of UK wealth
6 min read
An audience with Barbara Pozdorovkina: ‘Crypto rules will unleash digital demand’
LMAX’s growth officer has helped transform the gambling firm subsidiary into an institutional FX trading powerhouse. It’s now trying to build a new, tokenised future for capital markets
5 min read
Shawn Edwards: ‘At Bloomberg, the technologists are the rock stars’
The financial data giant’s chief technology officer is using AI to fight a problem of the firm’s own creation — the ever‑growing ‘fire hose of information’ coming through its flagship Terminal
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