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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
6 min read
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’
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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
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
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
An audience with Bryan Corbett: ‘It’s important that companies have the ability to go public’
The head of the alternative investment trade body on why private markets are booming everywhere and will survive a regulatory crackdown
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Barings boss Mike Freno on the art of the private markets deal
While many asset managers have just started pushing into private markets, Barings has been for 175 years. Its CEO explains what works, and what doesn’t
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Sophie Kennedy: ‘Becoming CEO of a wealth manager at 33 didn’t faze me’
The co-CEO of EQ Investors has weathered Trump and the ESG backlash. Now comes another challenge as its founder considers selling the business
5 min read
Natasha Harrison: ‘I made a career out of being adverse to Credit Suisse’
Once heir-apparent to David Boies, Harrison reveals what she’s incorporated into her own business, Pallas Partners, from her time at UK and US firms
5 min read
Euronext’s Stéphane Boujnah: ‘If things go wrong for crypto, we’ve a lot more to lose than FTX’
The head of Europe’s biggest stock exchange opens up about his next steps
8 min read
Komainu’s Paul Frost-Smith: ‘Trump has put the US back in our priorities’
Komainu has just completed the first ever Series B round funded in bitcoin. Its co-chief executive tells FN why he’s confident digital assets still have a future
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