The Mega Files

Nicholas Leonard is a retired financial journalist who worked on various publications, including the Investors Chronicle and the Financial Times.

Helen Cochrane is a professional artist and illustrator, based in Scotland: helencochraneartist@gmail.com

The cartoons are a joint collaboration between Nicholas and Helen and began appearing in FTfm in June 2017.

Cartoon, July 15

The Mega Files: Boris Johnson and Jeremy Hunt say they will open the spending taps

Cartoon, July 8

The Mega Files: Facebook and its Libra cryptocurrency

Cartoon: July 1

The Mega Files: one step beyond for this summer’s IPOs

Cartoon, June 17

Backlash after Woodford gates its Equity Income fund

Cartoon, November 12

The increasing use of algorithms and artificial intelligence in finance

Cartoon, October 8

Row over Unilever’s planned move to Netherlands

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Cartoon, October 1

Theresa May’s trials as prime minister

Cartoon, September 24

The Labour party conference is being held in Liverpool. It began yesterday and runs until Wednesday

Cartoon, September 17

The 10th anniversary of the collapse of Lehman Brothers

Cartoon, September 3

Donald Trump, tariffs, CAPITAL LETTERS and a hint to sell

Cartoon, August 13

Countrywide shares plunge on plan for emergency fundraising

Cartoon, August 6

Uncertainty over EU-US relations

Cartoon, July 30

Cloned advisers may provide ‘a kind of high-touch service at scale’

Cartoon, November 19
Cartoon, July 23

The auditors are running scared

Cartoon: Britain’s uncertain exit from the EU, July 16

The City of London struggles to make plans for Brexit

Cartoon, July 7

Celebrating diversity on the day of the London pride parade

Cartoon: industry romance, July 2

‘Mildred, you must come and say hello to Reginald ...’

Cartoon: June 25

Old Mutual, Quilter and the Latin translation of the new name

Cartoon: June 18

Brexit and the legendary British backstop

Cartoon: Fintech’s robotic future, June 11

How to cater for the effect of artificial intelligence on society

Cartoon: The power of the tech billionaires, June 4

Founders of some of the big West Coast companies stay firmly in the driver’s seat

Cartoon: one-share one-vote model under attack, May 28

Dual share class structures weaken investors’ ability to hold management to account

Cartoon: shareholder activism, May 21

A boss reacts to investors blocking executive pay deals

Cartoon: the royal couple, May 14

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s wedding has an effect in the City

Cartoon: Trump’s gifts for Kim, May 7

Washington prepares for possible peace summit

Cartoon: Bank of England seeks new governor, April 29

Starting gun prepped in race to replace Mark Carney at UK central bank

Cartoon: Elliott stake ups ante for Whitbread, April 23

Fasten your seatbelts for a bumpi ride

Cartoon: Banks face tough new stress tests, April 15

Financial groups to be tested on how they could withstand potential doomsday Brexit

Cartoon: Gender pay gap chasm exposed, April 8

UK employers with 250 plus staff disclose the pay difference between men and women

Cartoon: the backlash against Facebook, April 1

People are cancelling their social media accounts, but how to fill the time?

Cartoon: Corbyn’s vision spooks investors, March 26

Labour party wants to nationalise railway, water and energy companies and Royal Mail

Cartoon: Creepy giggling from Amazon’s smart speakers, March 16

Tech giant says virtual assistant ‘mistakenly’ heard the phrase ‘Alexa, laugh’

Cartoon: Comcast disrupts Murdoch’s Disney deal, March 12

US cable operator’s bid for Sky values pan-European media group at £22bn

Cartoon: Carney flags more than three rate rises, March 5

Bank of England governor says financial markets moving closer to underlying economic data