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Howard's Blog

Hello and welcome to my blog where I will share information and updates as well as tell you, first hand, what is going on in Financial Leeds and the wider marketplace.

I hope this blog will go further to explain our work at Financial Leeds and how we support the wider city region. From time to time I will be inviting guest bloggers to share their opinions on topics relating to the financial and professional services sector. Above all, I hope that you will find this blog interesting and informative.

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Minister visit to Leeds

Today was a lunchtime forum with Yvette Cooper, Pensions Minister organized by Financial Leeds and supported by Pinsent Masons (thanks again to Nigel McLea and John Hanratty) and Aviva (thanks to Brian Bussell) who we welcomed over from York.

Core Cities

The first part of the week was spent at the Core Cities Conference in Liverpool – and very refreshing to see the 8 major English cities working on a common agenda to present to prospective governments, rather than always competing against each other.

The next boom...not anytime soon

Excellent presentation by Tom Vosa , economist at Yorkshire/Clydesdale/National Australia Bank, yesterday, hosted by the British American Business Council and DLA Piper.

Time with the little people

Schools half term this week and I am increasingly of the view that we should use school holidays as reading weeks – or follow the French model and just shut up shop!

City Region Events

We hosted 2 city region events this week, one in Wakefield and one in Huddersfield (at the magnificent Galpharm Stadium).

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