Entrepreneur and angel investor Rachel Delacour joins Allegra Stratton to discuss why a new EU sustainability law will impact business in the UK and elsewhere.

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In the immediate aftermath of the 2020 murder of George Floyd by members of the Minneapolis Police Department, countless companies in cities everywhere responded to the worldwide uproar and Black Lives Matter movement by pledging more diversity, equity and inclusion. Bloomberg reporter Tiwa Adebayo, who has been investigating the progress of these initiatives across London, joins In the City to explain what’s happened in the four years since. 

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On this episode of Voternomics. hosts Stephanie Flanders, Allegra Stratton and Adrian Wooldridge are joined by reporter Ailbhe Rea to discuss Stephanie's exclusive interview with UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer at the International Investment Summit in London, and his pushback over capital gains taxes.

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Former Conservative minister Richard Harrington joins In the City to discuss Labour’s rhetoric and whether the party can bring back foreign investment. Plus, Bloomberg's Caroline Hepker on what the City makes of the government's first 100 days. 

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What will office districts do if back-to-the-office stalls? Canary Wharf Group Chief Executive Officer Shobi Khan explains how his company is revitalizing the famous center of finance on this episode of In the City. 

Canary Wharf, Khan tells hosts Francine Lacqua, David Merritt and Allegra Stratton, is no longer the “suit and tie” financial district of ten years ago. What was just blocks of banks now hosts residences, laboratories and cultural destinations, he says, with potential plans for a theater at the base of the HSBC tower. 

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Standard Chartered’s Bill Winters joins David Merritt and Francine Lacqua to talk climate finance, the UK’s Autumn Budget, and European M&A from the United Nations General Assembly. 

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The UK’s new Labour government is pinning its hopes for growth on private investment in everything from green energy to housing, but there’s an unexpected stick in the spokes: Thames Water. Since the debt-ridden water company was declared “uninvestable” by its shareholders in March, foreign investors have been asking: If the monopoly provider of a bare necessity to nearly a quarter of the UK’s population doesn’t yield guaranteed returns, then what does? 

On this episode of In the City,  UK economy reporter Philip Aldrick  and corporate finance reporter Abhinav Ramnarayan discuss with host Francine Lacqua how the collapse of what should be a safe investment has spooked foreign investors, and how the new Labour government can woo them back. 

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Ralph Schlosstein, chairman emeritus of Evercore, joins to discuss what Harris and Trump administrations would mean for boardrooms.

Plus, crypto reporter Emily Nicolle joins to discuss why former President Donald Trump seems to have had a change of heart on the digital currency he once denounced as a “scam.”

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Editor Katherine Griffiths and reporter Ben Stupples join to discuss the growing number of the UK's ultra-wealthy people considering an exit, what's driving them away and why the government should care.

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On this special episode of Voternomics, we discuss whether moods are shifting around US Vice President Kamala Harris and UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer.

Hosts Stephanie Flanders, Adrian Wooldridge and Allegra Stratton discuss with special guests Bloomberg Editor in Chief John Micklethwait and Senior Executive Editor of Bloomberg Opinion Tim O'Brien. The episode was recorded in front of an audience as part of an event co-hosted by Pi Capital. 

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