Banking / Finance

London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) is a global provider of financial market data and infrastructure, headquartered in Paternoster Square, London, and a FTSE 100 company. Its businesses include the London Stock Exchange, the index provider FTSE Russell, and a majority stake in the clearing house LCH.

In 2021 LSEG completed its $27 billion acquisition of the data provider Refinitiv, transforming it into one of the world's largest financial data businesses. Group revenue reached about £9.1 billion in 2025. I worked on LSEG's public-facing websites through GFT Technologies, a digital transformation consultancy founded in 1987 that specialises in financial services and employs over 10,000 people.

Capital Economics is an independent macroeconomic research consultancy, founded in London in 1999 by economist Roger Bootle. It has more than 60 economists covering over 100 economies, with offices in London, Toronto and Singapore. Clients subscribe for its research, data and forecasts, and it also provides economic scenarios for banks' stress testing and bespoke consultancy.

The firm has a strong forecasting reputation. It won the inaugural Wolfson Economics Prize in 2011, was named US Forecaster of the Year by the Wall Street Journal in 2010, and has repeatedly been the Sunday Times UK Forecaster of the Year. It deliberately has no investment banking, brokerage or trading arm, which underpins its independence.