The event, which is taking place on 7 September at Citi’s Canary Wharf headquarters, is to promote the fourth edition of the Ethics in Finance Robin Cosgrove Prize. The prize sees young academics and financial services professionals from around the world submit creative papers setting out analyses or proposals on how to change the financial system for the better. Launched to honour the memory of Robin Cosgrove - an investment banker who died tragically in an accident at the age of 31 - the Ethics in Finance Robin Cosgrove Prize attracts entrants from all over the world, not least because of the $10,000 awarded for the best paper.

The event will also promote a new book pulling together the 23 best and most innovative entries for the prize, entitled Trust and Ethics in Finance, which was launched in June at the Global Ethics Forum in Geneva.

Speaking at the event will be: Stuart Popham, Citi’s vice chairman for EMEA Banking; Simon Thompson, chief executive of the Chartered Bankers Institute; Carol Cosgrove-Sacks, the founder-director of the Prize, and Jakub Kuriata, winner of the Prize in 2011 and a credit analyst at BNP Paribas. Also speaking will be Stephen Harris, publisher of WealthBriefing and chair of the promotion group for the Prize.