{"id":72069,"date":"2016-07-07T10:48:00","date_gmt":"2016-07-07T10:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=58c00dbe2cd0c4d497764937c4a47b17"},"modified":"2016-07-07T15:57:17","modified_gmt":"2016-07-07T15:57:17","slug":"news-story-statement-from-the-chancellor-and-international-investment-banks-on-london-as-a-world-leading-financial-centre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=72069","title":{"rendered":"News story: Statement from the Chancellor and international investment banks on London as a world leading financial centre"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Updated:<\/em> Added to list of signatories: Mr Jim Cowles, (CEO, Europe, Middle East and Africa, Citi)<\/p>\n<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"last-child\">Britain\u2019s decision to leave the EU clearly presents economic challenges which we are determined to work together to meet.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"last-child\">We will also work together to identify the new opportunities that may now become available so that Britain remains one of the most attractive places in the world to do business.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"last-child\">One of Britain\u2019s key economic strengths is that it is a world leading financial centre.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"last-child\">It has one of the most stable legal systems in the world, a brilliant workforce and deep, liquid capital markets unmatched anywhere else in Europe, all of which are underpinned by world class regulators.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"last-child\">In recent years it has established itself as a global hub for renminbi, rupee, Islamic finance and green finance, as well as leading in new markets such as FinTech.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"last-child\">Today we met and agreed that we would work together to build on all this with a common aim to help London retain its position as the leading international financial centre.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h3 id=\"signatories-and-attendees\">Signatories and attendees<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Chancellor of the Exchequer, George Osborne<\/li>\n<li>Mr Bill Winters, CBE, (Group Chief Executive, Standard Chartered)<\/li>\n<li>Mr Michael Sherwood, (Vice Chairman and co-CEO, Goldman Sachs International)<\/li>\n<li>Mr Alex Wilmot-Sitwell, (President, EMEA, Bank of America Merrill Lynch)<\/li>\n<li>Mr Robert Rooney, (CEO, Morgan Stanley International)<\/li>\n<li>Mr Viswas Raghavan, (Deputy CEO and Head of Investment Banking (EMEA), JP Morgan)<\/li>\n<li>Mr Jim Cowles, (CEO, Europe, Middle East and Africa, Citi)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joint statement from the Chancellor of the Exchequer, George Osborne, and leaders of international investment banks released on 7 July 2016.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72069"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=72069"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72069\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72108,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72069\/revisions\/72108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=72069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=72069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=72069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}