CITY AM – Stocks chief: We’ll fight for London 

CITY AM SAYS the London Stock Exchange is the capital’s financial flagship – and it’s had a tough few years. The bourse’s boss Julia Hoggett tells Charlie Conchie why she’s confident she can turn it around

Julia Hoggett likes to think of her career as a series of exam questions. 

Each stage has been weighed up and approached as a separate and solvable issue. Each has been tackled with all the tools and knowledge she’s built up in advance. And crucially, each has been ticked off in some way before turning the page to the next one. 

Facing the London Stock Exchange chief now, though, is a real toughie; the sort that appears with an expanse of empty lines in front of it and a clock ticking ominously overhead.

“The exam question for now, is ‘how can you do everything you can to inject as much dynamism and life into the UK’s capital markets so they can serve both the UK economy and the UK as a global financial centre’,” she tells City A.M. in an interview at the London Stock Exchange. 

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