Article: Philanthropy
“It’s not all banking and dealmaking, charity’s big business in the Square Mile too” – City AM
Category Lord Mayor Of London #695 2023-2024
Kimchi
One of the earliest highlights of being Lord Mayor was hosting the President of South Korea at our State Banquet on 21 November. Imagine my delight when a week later we received two generous large boxes of kimchi, some thirty-plus…
Blowing Air …
Our last livery function of 2023 was an evening with the Worshipful Company of Fan Makers. As ever, enormous fun, but you might feel this photo needs a caption:
A ‘Glove Actually’ Christmas
The Worshipful Company of Glovers, never knowingly under-gloved, presented me as Lord Mayor with a seasonal portfolio of manual enhancements: a baseball glove for nostalgia, a golf glove for precision, and barbecue gloves for that most perilous of civic duties—turning…
First Off The AI Chocks
It was great to award The Chartered Institute for Securities & Investment (CISI) Certificate in Ethical Artificial Intelligence to our first student, Philip Chamberlain. Philip works in Saudi Arabia but flew to Dubai where we were attending COP 28 to…
Man-Groves Or Just Man-Flew
Yes, a misspelling, should just be mangroves, but got up quite early at a man-ly hour and found myself kayaking in the Abu Dhabi mangroves around 05:30 in the morning.
Article: Digital Banking
“Our financial services sector has failed to keep up with the change in digital banking” – City AM
Work, Work, Work!
Whilst I’m known to claim that emails from my portable devices emanate from “one of my work/life imbalance machines”, I do believe that if you don’t enjoy your job most of the time, you’re being unfair to yourself. So despite…