Events

The Mars & Pluto Financial Forum hosts a programme of regular forward-looking events focused on the crucial issues for financial policy, facilitating a problem-solving dialogue between the City and Westminster and enabling positive conclusions to be developed on policy direction.
 
Mars & Pluto Financial Forum events involve business leaders from across the financial services sector together with key ministers, policy-makers and parliamentarians. Recent events have included:
 
Reform of the financial services: the political and commercial balance
Chair:
John McFall MP, Chair, Treasury Select Committee
Panellists:
Hector Sants, Chief Executive, Financial Services Association
Philip Hammond MP, Shadow Chief Secretary to the Treasury
Lord Dan Brennan, Chairman, Caux Roundtable
 
Banking reform: challenge and opportunity 
Keynote address:
Dr Martin Weale, Institute Director, NIESR
 
Global financial services: recovery and London's role 
Chair:
Barry Sheerman MP, Founder, Mars & Pluto Financial Forum
Panellists:
Lord Terry Burns, Chairman, Abbey National PLC
Stephen Green, Group Chief Executive, HSBC
Jon Moulton, Managing Partner, Alchemy Partners
Paul Marshall, Chairman, Marshall Wallace LLP