Andrew Verity
Inflation, interest rates and financial regulation now move faster than most leadership teams can interpret them. Boards need someone who can take a central bank decision, a supply shock or a fresh enforcement action and explain what it actually means for capital, pricing and risk, without jargon and without dumbing it down. The gap is rarely information. It is translation at the level a chief executive can act on.
Andrew Verity is the BBC’s Economics Correspondent and the journalist who exposed the cover-up behind the LIBOR scandal, helping senior audiences read the real signal in monetary policy, market misconduct and financial regulation.
Full Profile
Why organisations work with Andrew Verity
- He is the reporter who broke the evidence of central bank involvement in LIBOR rate-rigging on Panorama and in the Radio 4 podcast The Lowball Tapes, and then laid out the full case in his book Rigged. Few speakers in this field can claim that level of original work on a scandal they covered end to end.
- As BBC Economics Correspondent he explains interest rates, inflation and growth on air to a national audience every week. That training shows up on stage: dense economic material rendered in language a board can use.
- His investigative track record, from The Truth About Property ahead of the 2008 housing crash to on-the-ground reporting on money laundering in Ukraine, gives him a sharper instinct than most commentators for where institutional risk is actually building.
- He is a practised live broadcaster, which makes him a natural moderator and interviewer at internal leadership events, client summits and regulated-industry conferences where the stakes of the conversation are high.
- For financial services, risk and compliance audiences in particular, he offers a perspective that is informed by named regulators, named trials and named evidence, not generic commentary.
Biography highlights
- Economics Correspondent, BBC News, reporting across television, radio and online since 2014.
- Author of Rigged (The History Press, 2023), a detailed account of the LIBOR scandal serialised in The Times.
- Presenter of The Lowball Tapes, the 2022 BBC Radio 4 investigative podcast series shortlisted for the British Journalism Awards and the Foreign Press Association Awards.
- Reporter and presenter for Panorama, including the investigation into the Bank of England’s role in LIBOR rate-rigging, with further contributions to Newsnight and File on Four.
- Former host of Wake Up to Money on BBC Radio 5 Live for eight years, a daily programme on markets, the economy and personal finance.
- Previously Personal Finance Correspondent at The Independent, recognised with industry awards for personal finance journalism and broadcasting.
Biography
The LIBOR scandal was presented to the public as a story about rogue traders. The evidence Andrew Verity assembled, on Panorama, in The Lowball Tapes and then in his book Rigged, tells a different story about the role of central banks and the safety of the convictions that followed. That body of work is why senior financial audiences take him seriously when he speaks about misconduct, regulation and market structure.
His day job is to translate macroeconomics for a national audience. As BBC Economics Correspondent since 2014 he has covered Brexit, the pandemic shock and post-pandemic inflation across television, radio and online. The discipline of explaining a rate decision or an inflation print in clear language, live, week after week, is what makes him effective in front of a leadership team.
The investigative thread runs through the rest of his career. He presented BBC Two’s The Truth About Property before the 2008 housing crash, hosted Wake Up to Money on BBC Radio 5 Live for eight years, and has reported from Ukraine on suspected money laundering. His book Rigged, published by The History Press in 2023 and serialised in The Times, has since been optioned for television.
For boards, risk committees and regulated-industry audiences, the practical value is specific. He can moderate a results conference, interview a chief executive on the record, or deliver a keynote that takes the latest central bank move and shows what it changes for the people in the room.
Key speaking topics
- The LIBOR scandal and financial misconduct
- Inflation, interest rates and monetary policy
- UK and global economic outlook
- Regulation and enforcement in financial services
- Investigative journalism and corporate accountability
- Housing, property markets and household finance
- Economics event moderation and on-stage interviewing
Ideal for
- Financial services, banking and asset management leadership events
- Risk, compliance and internal audit conferences in regulated industries
- Board and executive offsites seeking a clear read on the macro environment
- Corporate and client summits needing a senior broadcast-grade moderator or interviewer
Audience outcomes
- A clearer read on where inflation, interest rates and growth are heading and what actually drives the next move.
- A grounded view of the LIBOR scandal from the journalist who reported the cover-up, with direct relevance to conduct and culture questions today.
- A sharper sense of where regulatory and reputational risk tends to build inside large financial institutions.
- Confidence that the on-stage conversation with their own leaders or guests will be handled with the discipline of a live BBC broadcast.