The Progress 1000: London's most influential people 2019 – Business: Fintech & Banking

Emma Walmsley
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Emma Walmsley

CEO, GlaxoSmithKline | NEW
Chief of this British drugmaker since April 2017, Walmsley has put cancer as a central focus in a revamp of GSK’s research and development. She is heralded as a rare example of a female leader of a big pharma, and since taking charge the former L’Oreal executive has made a flurry of massive acquisitions, shaken up top leadership and focused more on investing only in likaliely winners in its drug pipeline.

Rajeev Misra

CEO of SoftBank and its Vision Fund | NEW
This is the man to try and see at his Mayfair offices if you want funding for your start-up. He has the largest fund in town — a massive $100 billion — to invest in the best money-making ideas.

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António Horta-Osório

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Chief executive, Lloyds bank
Horta-Osorio runs Britain’s biggest high street bank as smoothly as his molasses-like voice — and returned the bank to full private ownership. The Portuguese banking business honcho received his MBA at INSEAD and previously worked with Goldman Sachs and Santander. He is chairman of the Wallace Collection and a keen scuba diver, tennis and chess player.

Alison Rose

Chief executive, Royal Bank of Scotland | NEW
After growing up overseas in a military family, Rose owes her entrepreneurship to her disciplined upbringing. In March, the Government published a policy paper by Rose entitled the Alison Rose Review of Female Entrepreneurship which prompted the Government to push for a 50 per cent increase in female entrepreneurs by 2030. Rose was appointed as the new chief executive of RBS last month having previous been deputy chief exec at NatWest.

David Schwimmer

Chief executive, London Stock Exchange
Schwimmer, with the impressive alma maters of both Yale University and Harvard University, keeps London the world centre for trading in the face of a Brexit threat. He brings his expertise across the pond after having worked as a banker at Goldman Sachs for 20 years and has just pulled off a huge deal, buying data provider Refinitiv for £22 billion.

Jes Staley

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Chief executive, Barclays
American banker Staley has moved from JP Morgan to BlueMountain Capital to Barclays. He is now turning around Britain’s only universal bank to keep the City in the heart of global banking. Doing more than building up and managing banks, Staley has been praised for helping JP Morgan become an LGBT-friendly company.

Nathan Bostock

Chief executive, Santander
Driven to do better, Bostock provides lending to London’s small and medium businesses. He joined Santander UK from The Royal Bank of Scotland, where he held many leadership positions.

Richard Gnodde

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Vice-chairman, Goldman Sachs
South African, London-based investment banker Gnodde is moving the bank into a glittering new light-filled HQ in Farringdon any moment now, having spent an estimated £130 million on fittings. His career with Goldman began in 1987 and throughout his years with the company he has worked in Japan, Singapore, Hong Kong and London. Gnodde, who has been dragged into the 1MDB scandal in Malaysia, is one of the highest-paid investment bankers in the UK. Goldman Sachs have said the charges are misdirected and will be vigorously defended.

Viswas Raghavan

Chief executive, JPMorgan Europe, Middle East, Africa
Known as Vis, Raghavan’s powerful reach for JP Morgan covers huge swathes of the globe. Born and bred in India, he is a keen cricketer and avid supporter of Arsenal FC while keeping the world’s biggest bank ahead of the pack on this side of the pond.

James Bardrick

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UK CEO of Citigroup
Last month Citigroup handed more responsibility to Bardrick as part of a shake-up of its European investment bank, including operations in Israel to increase ties with the UK on “technology and digital disruption”. As well as being heavily involved in improving bank culture — he sits on the Banking Standards Board set up in 2015 to improve banks’ behaviour — Bardrick is a trustee and deputy chairman of Career Ready, which helps young people enter the world of work.

Clare Woodman

CEO Morgan Stanley International
Woodman was the first woman to run a major London investment bank, and is now over a year into the job. Her remit covers operations across Europe, the Middle East and Africa as well as overseeing the firm’s long-standing partnership with Great Ormond Street Hospital.

Gavin Lewis

Distribution chief, Vanguard UK
Born in Tottenham to a single parent, Lewis is a key member of Diversity Project, launched to boost diversity among City money managers. He has championed the #talkaboutblack movement in City circles this year and is responsible for managing a $5.3 trillion fund.

Abdallah Nauphal

Chief executive, Insight Investment
A refugee from Lebanon, the low profile fund chief is known by peers as “the smartest man” in fund management, having grown Insight Investment into a £650 billion pension fund manager this year.

Anne Richards

Chief executive, Fidelity International
The “funds queen” became even more influential after clinching the role as chief executive of the £300 billion fund manager this year. Having left M&G Investments, the former nuclear physicist is helping the investment group build up retail customers.

Justin Onuekwusi

Fund manager, Legal and General Investment Management
The fund star originally studied economics at the University of Warwick and this year started working alongside the trade body Investment Association in a diversity drive to help get more ethnic minorities into investment management. Outside of work he enjoys tennis, football, the cinema and theatre.

Bronek Masojada

Chief executive, Hiscox
Masojada became the longest-serving chief executive in the FTSE 100 this year. He has steered the insurer from a small start-up in 2000 into the top flight of global firms. The company is based in the centre of London’s insurance district and employs many thousands.

Clare Lebecq

Chief executive, London Market Group
Lebecq became the first female chief of insurers’ trade body LMG less than a year ago in November 2018. She is a former senior operations chief at JLT and worked in the London insurance market for 25 years. She has become an increasingly important figure as London’s insurance market tries to shed its sexist image.

David Livingstone

EMEA CEO of Citigroup | NEW
Citigroup’s European chief is punchy and progressive on the opportunity for London post-Brexit. He said in an interview last month: “Brexit was inevitable from the moment the UK decided not to join the euro.” Livingstone was promoted to his current position in February this year and is responsible for Citi’s businesses throughout EMEA, where Citi maintains a physical presence in 55 countries and does business in 51 more. Prior to that he was responsible for Citi’s business in Australia and New Zealand.

Bill Winters

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Chief executive, Standard Chartered
With an MBA from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania (Trump’s alma mater), Winters is a leading banker and theatre enthusiast. He recently participated in a charity video, shown at the Young Vic theatre, entitled Life’s a Pitch. Winters is an American who loves London and theatre so much he and his wife back and run Notting Hill’s Print Room Theatre.

Karen Green

Deputy chair of Aspen Managing Agency | NEW
One of the most senior figures in insurance, she is the deputy chair of the Lloyd’s of London underwriter Aspen and also sits on the board at the Lime Street insurance market itself and Admiral. She has been a strong voice in urging Lloyd’s to modernise.

Penny James

Chief executive of Direct Line
Appointed chief executive of the UK’s largest car insurer in May, taking over from Paul Geddes, and is one of only seven female FTSE 100 CEOs. She is busy launching Direct Line’s first new brand in 25 years — a price comparison product called Darwin — and helping grow premiums at the company.

John Neal

Chief executive of Lloyd’s of London
Dame Inga Beale’s replacement has a major job to do improving the City’s famous insurance market amid allegations of sexual harassment in some member firms and poor financial performance — but he seems to be grabbing all the bulls by the horns.

Christian Faes

Co-founder and chief executive, LendInvest
Having started his career as a real estate lawyer in Australia, Faes has now found himself sitting on the Government’s FinTech Delivery Panel. In 2013 he created LendInvest, the first ever peer-to-peer platform for property lending.

Tina Fordham

Managing director and chief political analyst, Citigroup
Fordham continues to push for pay equality for women and publishes research on the benefit of an inclusive economy. She is the first and only chief political analyst to work for a major financial institution, having joined Citi in 2003. Her work focuses on hard-to-quantify risks, including “vox populi” risk, which is the idea that public opinion is a risk factor in the investment environment.

Noel Quinn

Interim chief executive, HSBC
Quinn — now in temporary charge of the lender — has been running the global commercial bank for the past four years and used to be based in Hong Kong running the unit’s Asian division. He is also a big advocate of LGBT rights, and sits on the global advisory board of Out Leadership, an LGBT business advice group. He started out as an accountant working for Midland Bank in its Forward Trust subsidiary.

Taavet Hinrikus

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Co-founder and chairman, Transferwise
Tech pioneer Hinrikus has started a company which lets you transfer money up to eight times more cheaply than with a bank. Claiming that free money transfers and 0% commissions are “pure propaganda” and having to make transfers between Estonia and London, Hinrikus created Transferwise to make life easier. He has stepped back from its day to day running but remains its chairman.

Dan Hegarty

Founder, Habito | NEW
Not to be confused with the Grand Prix racer, this 35-year-old is at the forefront of tech entrepreneurship. Hegarty is now the CEO of a very successful London-based company, Habito, but before his success in fintech he had an unconventional background. He left school at 16 and then became a talented guitarist with punk group Serum before setting up his mortgage broking app.

Samir Desai

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Chief executive, Funding Circle
In 2008, Funding Circle was merely a big vision between two friends in a bar in London. Desai wanted to remove banks from the borrowing equation and allow companies to easily borrow funds from elsewhere. Charismatic founder Desai listed his company on the London Stock Exchange last year in one of the biggest tech floats of the year.

Tom Blomfield

Chief executive at Monzo
OBE and Oxford grad Blomfield started his life at OC&C Strategy, where Jeremy Hunt began his career. He then founded GoCardless and now Monzo. Blomfield used to be told that Monzo would never get any customers, he’s now asked whether he worries that other banks are going to catch up.

Nikolay Storonsky

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Chief executive at Revolut | NEW
Revolut has taken digital payments by storm, trying to deliver the revolution its name promises. Not believing in a work-life balance, the 33-year-old dedicates himself to create his £300 million company. But he never seems far away from controversy.

Oliver Prill

Chief executive, Tide | NEW
Prill has made business banking fast... mega fast. Customers can open current accounts straight from their mobile phone by scanning an ID and will be sent a Mastercard debit card to use for business transactions. Prill believes that Tide is the only fintech that is putting small businesses first and has the potential to make a meaningful impact.

Rishi Khosla

Co-founder and chief executive, OakNorth
The British Indian started life at ABN Ambro and then worked for Lakshmi Mittal after graduating from the LSE before setting up OakNorth. The bank is now one of the most active lenders in the UK and lends between £500,000 to £45 million to businesses and property developers.

Anne Boden

Chief executive, Starling Bank
This former RBS banker is turning Starling into a mainstream bank. The mobile-only lender surprised many in landing £100 million from the RBS Banking Competition Remedies Fund this year, though conflict of interest frets clouded the award. In June she released her book The Money Revolution, aiming to simplify financial advice jargon.

Freddy Kelly

Founder at Credit Kudos
The credit scoring firm takes in data on a person to give a fuller picture of their credit than the traditional agencies. The University of Manchester graduate developed the idea after a stint in San Francisco and his venture raised £2.2 million in a funding round earlier this year.

Lance Uggla

CEO of IHS Markit
Whilst there are many new entrants in this field, IHS Markit have been consistently taking the world’s biggest data sets and making sense of them for business, industry, education and public services. In 16 short years Lance Uggla has grown IHS Markit into a $26 billion company.

The Progress 1000, in partnership with the global bank Citi, is the Evening Standard’s celebration of the people changing London’s future for the better. #Progress1000

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