John Plender is a British financial journalist.

John Plender is with the Financial Times where he has been a columnist and a senior editorial writer since 1981. He is also a broadcaster on current affairs for Channel 4 and the BBC. Earlier in his career he was with The Economist.^[1]

In 1992 he broke the story of the Church of England's investment losses.^[2]

Books

• That’s The Way The Money Goes, with Andre Deutsch, (1982)
• The Square Mile, with Paul Wallace, (Hutchinson, 1984)
• A Stake in the Future, with Nicholas Brealey, 1997)
• Going Off The Rails - Global Capital and the Crisis of Legitimacy, with John Wiley (2003)
• Ethics and Public Finance with Avinash Persaud, (Longtail, 2007)^[3]
• Capitalism: Money, Morals, and Markets, (Biteback, 2015)^[4][5]