{"id":1900,"date":"2026-09-29T22:03:54","date_gmt":"2026-09-29T17:03:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=1900"},"modified":"2026-09-29T22:03:54","modified_gmt":"2026-09-29T17:03:54","slug":"pm-shehbaz-meets-executives-of-global-financial-institutions-in-britain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=1900","title":{"rendered":"PM Shehbaz meets executives of global financial institutions in Britain"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>Prime Minister Muhammad Shehbaz Sharif held a series of meetings with senior executives from global financial institutions including Barclays, J.P. Morgan, Citi, BlackRock and Rothschild &amp; Co during his visit to Britain on Tuesday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>PM Shehbaz welcomed Barclays\u2019 interest in Pakistan during a meeting with Mohammad Kamal Syed, Head of Private Bank and Wealth Management UK, and briefed him on the government\u2019s macroeconomic stabilisation measures, encouraging the bank to explore opportunities in Pakistan\u2019s financial sector.<\/p>\n<p>In a meeting with a delegation led by Matthieu Wiltz, Co-CEO for EMEA at J.P. Morgan, he discussed expanding cooperation in capital markets, trade finance and investment banking and invited the firm to expand its presence in Pakistan. The delegation reaffirmed its interest in sovereign debt capital markets and corporate banking opportunities.<\/p>\n<p>PM Shehbaz also met senior Citi officials led by David Livingstone, Chief Client Officer, and encouraged the bank to expand its corporate and institutional banking services in Pakistan.<\/p>\n<p>During a meeting with a BlackRock delegation comprising Gordon Fraser and Sam Vecht, Co-Heads of Emerging Markets and Frontiers, and Emily Fletcher, Portfolio Manager and Research Analyst, Sharif invited increased allocations to Pakistani equities and fixed income under the firm\u2019s frontier markets strategy. Both sides stressed the importance of sustained policy consistency in building investor confidence.<\/p>\n<p>In a meeting with Rothschild &amp; Co, represented by Lord Mark Sedwill, Chair of Geostrategic Advisory, and Majid Ishaq, Head of UK Investment Banking, discussions focused on Pakistan\u2019s geo-economic priorities and potential advisory cooperation on capital markets and investment strategy.<\/p>\n<p>The visiting executives expressed confidence in Pakistan\u2019s economic reform momentum and reaffirmed their institutions\u2019 commitment to deepening engagement with the country\u2019s financial sector, according to a government statement.<\/p>\n<p>Finance Minister Senator Muhammad Aurangzeb and Advisor to the Prime Minister on Privatisation and Chairman of the Privatisation Commission Muhammad Ali also attended the meetings.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prime Minister Muhammad Shehbaz Sharif held a series of meetings with senior executives from global financial institutions including Barclays, J.P. Morgan, Citi, BlackRock and Rothschild &amp; Co during his visit to Britain on Tuesday. PM Shehbaz welcomed Barclays\u2019 interest in Pakistan during a meeting with Mohammad Kamal Syed, Head of Private Bank and Wealth Management UK, and briefed him on the government\u2019s macroeconomic stabilisation measures, encouraging the bank to explore opportunities in Pakistan\u2019s financial sector. In a meeting with a delegation led by Matthieu Wiltz, Co-CEO for EMEA at J.P.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"gutentor_comment":0,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1900","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1900"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1900\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}