What a year it’s been! Over the past 50-plus weeks, Bloomberg’s CFO Briefing covered a wide range of topics, from Trump’s tariffs and the ROI on AI to controlling the controllables, record turnover in the top finance seat, Section 899 and OB3, Excel’s 40th, the rise in PBCs, First Brands and the ripple effects for trade finance, surging healthcare costs, preparing for a recession and why London is losing out on global IPOs, to name just a few.
Along the way, I had the opportunity to interview leading finance chiefs from all over the world, including the US, China, Asia Pacific, the Middle East, Latin America and Europe. 2025 brought us a step closer to our goal of becoming a truly global destination for corporate finance coverage, with the number of paying subscribers growing not only in the US, Asia and Europe, but also elsewhere. A major driver was our new CFO roundtable series, with events held at Bloomberg Invest in New York, the Qatar Economic Forum in Doha, the Sustainable Business Summit in Singapore and Bloomberg Tech in London. CFO Briefing also expanded into other formats, such as our segments on Bloomberg Businessweek, Bloomberg Brief and the Asia Trade.
I am very grateful for the support I received in 2025 – from my colleagues in the newsroom and at Bloomberg Intelligence, from contacts in PR and investor relations, and from CFOs who shared many interesting insights, as well as some surprising ones. Here’s to 2026 and what it may bring!