I need to take you back a little to understand how London has emerged from a souvenir city, rich in heritage, to its present all singing colossus. If you will ‘the greatest city on earth!’
Through the reforms of the 80s, spearheaded by Thatcher, London started to shed the shackles of its socialistic past by getting rid of exchange controls and deregulating a plethora of byzantine systems and traditions whilst it embraced the new age technology of the 21st Century. The time zone and geographical location of this great City of ours between the East and West gave us a unique advantage and whilst back then financial services were restricted to insurance it is today an all embracing frenetic hub where more IPOs take place than anywhere else in the world. Continue reading