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, August 6

Uncertainty over EU-US relations

Cartoon, July 30

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

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 ...’

More from this Series

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