A former trader at HSBC Holdings Plc and Lloyds Banking Group Plc, used to seeing millions of dollars flash across his screen in an instant, is working with climate activists to help marshal donations to support two weeks of protests in London.
Andrew Medhurst, whose 30-year career in banking spanned Europe and Asia as a derivatives trader and risk manager, quit his last job at a government-backed pension provider in January to join the swelling ranks of Extinction Rebellion, a group calling for drastic government action to slow and then halt climate change.
