Amanda Blanc, the group CEO of Aviva, has been made a Dame in the New Year Honours list for “services to business, to gender equality and to net-zero.”

Anthony Arter and Keith Skeoch have both been honoured in the King’s first New Year’s Honours' List for services to the financial sector.

Former work and pensions committee chairman Frank Field has been recognised for his “lifetime of public service” in the Queen’s New Year Honours list.

The former interim chief executive of the FCA Christopher Woolard has been awarded a CBE in the New Year Honours list.