Today’s guest discusses why he believes London has lagged other financial centres in recent years. He outlines the issues within UK financial services he believes City watchdogs should prioritise to strengthen London as a financial centre and as a listing exchange amid what he sees as a post-Brexit crisis of confidence.
He also details what measures policymakers can take to boost London’s appeal and competitiveness in the lead-up to the upcoming general election.
Craig Coben is a former investment banker with more than 25 years of financial industry experience. He began his banking career at Deutsche Bank in 1997, before moving to Merrill Lynch (now Bank of America) in 2005 where he most recently served as the US bank’s vice-chairman of global capital markets in London and its co-head of global capital markets for its Asia-Pacific region based in Hong Kong. He retired from investment banking in 2022.
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