Pierpoint & Co.
Yasmin Kara-Hanani
Yasmin Kara-Hanani (Marisa Abela) is a new graduate on Pierpoint’s Foreign Exchange Sales (FX) desk and one of the series’ protagonists. A wealthy heiress to the Hanani Publishing empire and fluent in multiple languages, she is materially privileged but emotionally unsettled, with strained relationships to both divorced parents—especially her manipulative, philandering father Charles.
In season 1, Yasmin works under VP Kenny Kilbane, a volatile alcoholic who resents her background and repeatedly subjects her to verbal abuse. She lives alone in her father’s Notting Hill apartment, ends a sexually unsatisfying relationship with her underachieving boyfriend Seb, and begins aggressively flirting with Robert, enjoying her leverage over him though they never consummate the relationship. Yasmin befriends Harper, who becomes her flatmate, but their bond is complicated by Harper’s unreciprocated feelings for Robert. Despite being aware of Kenny’s behavior, senior FX MD Hilary Wyndham pressures Yasmin to stay silent during her RIF interview in the name of being a “team player.” She complies and is hired full-time, but Harper’s deal to reinstate Eric and fire Daria strains their friendship.
In season 2, Yasmin is more competent and confident on the FX desk but remains openly hostile toward Harper. Kenny returns from rehab seeking absolution, which Yasmin refuses to give. She enters a sexual relationship with Pierpoint private wealth manager Celeste Pacquet and begins angling for a move into PWM. When her father arrives in London, Yasmin brings him in as a client, only to uncover that his finances are unraveling due to extensive NDA settlements with mistresses, including her childhood nanny. Realizing Charles is a sexual predator who likely groomed younger women, Yasmin confronts him; he lashes out and cuts her off financially.
In season 3, Yasmin brings Harper on a trip to Italy aboard Charles’ yacht. After discovering him having sex with a pregnant employee in her bed, Yasmin accuses Charles of having sexualized her throughout her life. A drunken Charles jumps overboard following the argument, and Yasmin makes no attempt to save him; Harper helps her cover it up. Back in London, Yasmin is hounded by paparazzi amid revelations of Charles’ historic embezzlement from Hanani Publishing. Working under Eric on a consolidated CPS/FX desk, she helps rescue the Lumi IPO by engineering publicity around CEO Henry Muck. Henry later uses his uncle, newspaper proprietor Lord Norton, to suppress negative press about Yasmin. Yasmin begins a sexual relationship with Henry but ends it after learning of his harassment of employees. When Charles’ body is recovered, Eric sexually propositions Yasmin, which she angrily rejects. Harper then tricks Yasmin into revealing Pierpoint’s ESG positions, shorts the firm, and Eric fires Yasmin after photos of Charles’ corpse leak, revealing Harper’s betrayal and destroying their friendship. Designated the scapegoat for her father’s crimes, Yasmin prepares to fight Hanani Publishing in court. During a visit to Henry's estate, and Robert finally have sex and declare their love for each other, but Yasmin ultimately agrees to marry Henry for protection, power, and security. Six months later, Yasmin’s public image has stabilized, and she and Harper have reconciled.
Sara Dhadwal
Sara Dhadwal (Priyanga Burford) is the president of Pierpoint London in season 1, and oversees its new hire program. Firm and principled, she initially clashes with Gus Sackey when he castigates her for promoting Pierpoint's cutthroat culture, which he blames for the death of his colleague Hari Dhar. However, Sara gradually becomes more in favor of culture change at the company; she views Eric as the primary embodiment of Pierpoint's toxicity, and fires him after Harper reports Eric locking her in a conference room to berate her. She also tries to become a more supportive figure to Gus, but he grows increasingly disillusioned with the firm, and purposely sabotages his interview on reduction-in-force (RIF) day. The same day, Pierpoint's global head of FICC, Bill Adler, offers Harper a chance to retract her complaint against Eric to bring him back to the firm; Sara takes her aside and tries talking her out of it, telling her she has the power to fundamentally change the culture of Pierpoint. Harper, however, rebuffs Sara for seeing her as a victim, and agrees to have Eric rehired.
Hilary Wyndham
Hilary Wyndham (Mark Dexter) is the managing director (MD) of the FX desk at Pierpoint. Throughout the first season, he is shown to be a more measured leader than his subordinate Kenny, an alcoholic and a bully who repeatedly subjects Yasmin to verbal abuse. However, nearing reduction-in-force (RIF) day, Hilary advises Yasmin not to report Kenny's behavior, telling her that being a "team player" would benefit her career prospects. Yasmin caves to Hilary's advice during her RIF interview when she denies having any negative experiences at Pierpoint, and Hilary vouches for her, ensuring that she is hired.
In season 2, Hilary becomes paranoid about contracting COVID-19 at the office, wearing a mask to work and exhibiting germaphobe tendencies. Ironically, it is he who ends up falling ill and having to take time off from the office. Yasmin tells Hilary that she will be spending less time on the FX desk as she explores a move to the Private Wealth Management (PWM) division; Hilary, feeling numb and burnt out from the job, grants her his blessing.
Hilary does not appear in season 3, having presumably left Pierpoint after the FX and Cross-Product Sales (CPS) desks were consolidated.
Harper Stern
Harper Stern (Myha'la) is a new graduate on Pierpoint’s Cross-Product Sales desk and one of the series’ protagonists. Brilliant, ruthless, and intensely ambitious, Harper routinely lies and manipulates to get ahead. Raised in Binghamton, New York by an abusive, domineering mother alongside her twin brother John-Daniel, she never graduated from college after suffering a panic attack during her final exams and conceals this to keep her job. She moves to London to escape her past and gravitates toward Eric Tao as a mentor who validates her drive.
In season 1, Harper forges college transcripts for HR, moves into Yasmin’s flat, and forms a close but fragile friendship with her. At work, she is torn between Daria, who insists on professionalism and limits, and Eric, whose aggression mirrors her own ambition; Eric admits he knows she never graduated but protects her. Harper’s early client experiences are damaging: hedge fund manager Nicole Craig sexually assaults her, and she fails to win back major client Felim Bichan, prompting Eric to trap and berate her in a conference room. Daria urges Harper to report Eric, leading to his firing. On RIF day, Harper retracts the complaint in exchange for Eric’s reinstatement and Daria’s dismissal, believing only Eric nurtures her potential. The decision isolates her and fractures her friendship with Yasmin, while her unrequited feelings for Robert deepen.
In season 2, Harper remains estranged from Yasmin and enters a casual sexual relationship with Robert. She befriends investor Jesse Bloom and secures him as a client by helping him seize control of Rican, undercutting Felim and contributing to Eric’s removal from the trading floor. Harper begins a relationship with Daniel Van Deventer (DVD) and travels to Berlin to confront her estranged brother, who rebuffs her. When Pierpoint plans to fold London into New York, Harper engineers a survival bid with Eric to preserve a London office, getting DVD fired. After Jesse manipulates her into committing insider trading, Eric shields her by exposing her forged transcripts instead, getting her fired.
In season 3, six weeks prior to the main events, Harper accompanies Yasmin on a cruise in Italy and helps cover up Charles Hanani’s drowning. In the present, Harper works at ethical fund FutureDawn, earns Petra Koenig’s trust during the tumultuous Lumi IPO by helping hedge her exposure, and the two co-found their own firm, LeviathanAlpha, with backing from Otto Mostyn. Harper exploits Pierpoint as broker to humiliate Eric and illegally plans a short of Pierpoint’s ESG-backed debt, using an unwitting Yasmin to obtain information. The betrayal ends their friendship. Harper ultimately abandons the short but partners with Otto to launch a New York hedge fund focused on shorting corrupt firms they can control.
Gus Sackey
Gus Sackey (David Jonsson) is a new grad at Pierpoint, initially assigned to the Investment Banking Division (IBD) and transferred to the CPS desk after the death of his colleague Hari Dhar. Gus is openly gay and hails from an elite background, having graduated literae humaniores from both Eton College and the University of Oxford. Despite his upper-class upbringing, Gus is shown to be humble and morally principled, and feels undervalued within Pierpoint's cutthroat work culture.
Robert Spearing
Robert Spearing (Harry Lawtey) is a new grad on Pierpoint's CPS desk, and one of the series' protagonists. Robert is an Oxford graduate born to a working-class family, and is determined to prove his worth at Pierpoint. Throughout the series, Robert is shown to be humble, personable, and good with clients, but frequently gets carried away indulging in alcohol and hard drugs. He also had a toxic relationship with his late mother, who was controlling and possessive, and is estranged from his father Robert Sr.
In season 1, Robert struggles to distinguish himself on a marginal desk under Clement Cowan, who has only one client and little interest in mentoring. He is drawn into a flirtatious triangle with Yasmin Kara-Hanani and Harper Stern, enjoying Yasmin’s attention. Clement takes Robert to Amsterdam to meet their sole client, where the meeting succeeds and Clement gifts Robert a tailored suit, bonding with him over shared lower-class origins and revealing his own heroin addiction. Robert grows closer to Yasmin, participates in heavy partying, and sleeps with Harper, culminating in an aborted threesome. On RIF day, Robert impresses Bill Adler with a presentation centered on client relationships and secures a full-time role.
In season 2, newly sober, Robert struggles with confidence and cold-calling but begins a sexual relationship with hedge fund manager Nicole Craig, who exerts control over him while masking predatory behavior. He later intervenes—too late—when Nicole assaults Venetia, a grad he was recruiting with, and becomes complicit in Pierpoint’s decision to bury the incident. Robert’s mentor Clement dies and leaves him his apartment as inheritance. Robert also reconciles with his estranged father during a recruiting trip to Oxford.
In season 3, Robert has spent months working with Lumi founder Henry Muck as Pierpoint underwrites their IPO. He wakes up after a tryst with Nicole to find her dead beside him, leaving him shaken and guilt-ridden. Eric pushes him through the Lumi IPO. He grows closer to Yasmin and later brings her on a road trip tied to his efforts to raise venture capital for Little Labs, a psilocybin startup. Despite declaring mutual love with Yasmin, Robert accepts her decision to marry Henry for security and influence. By the series’ end, Robert thrives in California, confidently pitching Little Labs to venture capitalists.
Greg Grayson
Greg Grayson (Ben Lloyd-Hughes) is a VP on Pierpoint's Cross-Product Sales (CPS) desk. He is initially romantically interested in Harper; she rejects his advances, but the two remain friends afterwards. Greg copes with Pierpoint's ruthless culture using drugs, and also explores writing in his spare time, which Eric publicly mocks him for. During an office Christmas party, Harper tells Robert to look after Greg and make sure he stays sober, but Robert and Greg end up indulging in heavy drug use with a client, culminating in Greg running headfirst into a window and injuring himself. Greg leaves Pierpoint after the incident.
Greg reappears at the end of season 3, now working as a venture capital investor in California. He listens to a sales pitch from Robert for Little Labs, a startup producing medicinal psilocybin. [1]
Kenny Kilbane
Kenny Kilbane (Conor MacNeill) is a VP on Pierpoint's Foreign Exchange Sales (FX) desk, and Yasmin's direct line manager. Throughout the first season, Kenny subjects Yasmin to repeated bullying and verbal abuse in the workplace, which he often blames on his alcoholism. In one case, Yasmin brings Kenny to a client dinner she arranged with her family friend Maxim Alonso, but Kenny embarrasses her when he orders a stripper to perform a lap dance on Yasmin in front of her disgusted clients. On reduction-in-force (RIF) day, however, Kenny's boss Hilary Wyndham advises that Yasmin not report his behavior during her interview, suggesting that being a "team player" would help her career prospects.
In season 2, Kenny returns to work following a long stint in rehab during the COVID-19 pandemic, noticeably kinder to his colleagues and vocal about his commitment to self-improvement and repentance. Yasmin, though still uncomfortable around Kenny, invites him to another client dinner, which ends up going well after Kenny and the client bond over both attending AA. When Yasmin announces her departure from the FX desk for a role in private wealth management (PWM), Kenny takes her aside and offers a sincere, tearful apology for his behavior. Later, however, new FX hire Venetia Berens reports to Kenny that CPS client Nicole Craig sexually assaulted her, and that Yasmin dismissed her concerns. Kenny confronts Yasmin about her response, but Yasmin berates him for his hypocrisy given his own history of abusive conduct towards her, and brands him a narcissist lording his sobriety over others.
In season 3, Kenny is said to have helped Eric through his drinking problem after the dissolution of the latter's marriage. Kenny also reveals he recently got married himself. Eric admits to Yasmin that he regrets showing Kenny a vulnerable side of himself. Eric, recently promoted to partner, is told by Adler that he needs to fire someone on the trading floor to prove his worth. Instead of firing Yasmin or Robert like he initially considered, Eric fires Kenny, threatening to expose his past treatment of Yasmin if he does not go quietly. Kenny is later shown to have joined Goldman Sachs alongside fellow ex-Pierpoint employees Daria Greenock and Jackie Walsh, and the three agree to help Harper short Pierpoint.
Daria Greenock
Daria Greenock (Freya Mavor) is a VP at Pierpoint's CPS desk, and Harper's direct manager during her internship. Daria works to foster a poised, professional relationship with Harper, who nonetheless finds herself drawn more to Eric's fiery, cutthroat management style, frequently undercutting Daria in the process. When Harper confides to Daria that Eric locked her in a conference room to berate her for a mistake, Daria tells Sara and the two push Harper to file a formal complaint, getting Eric fired and positioning Daria to become CPS' managing director in his place. Harper is initially allowed to keep the outsize bonus that Eric paid her as long as she keeps it quiet, but Daria later has Harper pay it back after Harper talks about it during a party. On RIF day, Harper accepts a deal to retract her complaint against Eric and get him rehired, leading to Daria's firing.
In season 2, Daria is revealed to have joined Goldman Sachs; though she is on maternity leave, she visits the office during a sham interview with Harper, Eric, and Rishi to revel in their humiliation. In season 3, however, Daria agrees to help Harper short Pierpoint alongside Kenny and Jackie, who have also joined Goldman Sachs, out of spite towards their ex-employer.
Clement Cowan
Clement Cowan (Derek Riddell) is a VP at Pierpoint's CPS desk, and Robert's manager during his internship. Clement covers only one account: Kaspar Zenden, a Dutch investor he has known for 20 years. Though initially distant and aloof, Clement forms a kinship with Robert over their shared working-class origins. He reveals to him that he is actually Scottish, but hides his background and accent to fit in with Pierpoint's elite. Robert also learns that Clement is heroin addict. Clement is eventually fired at the end of season 1 during a Pierpoint reorg. In season 2, Robert learns that Clement died and left him half a million pounds in his will, which Robert uses to buy himself a house in season 3.
Hari Dhar
Hari Dhar (Nabhaan Rizwan) is a new grad assigned to Pierpoint's Investment Banking Division (IBD) alongside Gus. Having come from a family of Indian immigrants and graduated from a state school, Hari feels out of place among Pierpoint's new grads, and overcompensates by working through the night at the office, sleeping in the bathrooms, skipping nights out with his colleagues, and abusing energy drinks and stimulant pills to stay awake. Within days, Hari dies of a heart attack in Pierpoint's bathroom stalls. Pierpoint does brief damage control before going back to business as usual. However, Hari's death causes many Pierpoint employees to reflect on the cutthroat culture of investment banking, and plays a role in Gus' eventual decision to leave the firm.
Theo Tuck
Theo Tuck (Will Tudor) is a second-year research analyst at Pierpoint. He and Gus were classmates at Eton College, where they were romantically involved till Gus moved to Oxford. The two rekindle their affair once Gus joins Pierpoint, but Theo remains closeted and lives with his girlfriend, Alice. During an office Christmas party, Alice catches Theo and Gus being intimate, and Theo breaks off his relationship with Gus shortly thereafter. Theo does not reappear after season 1, presumably having left Pierpoint.
Eric Tao
Eric Tao (Ken Leung) is a managing director on Pierpoint’s Cross-Product Sales desk and one of the series’ protagonists. A longtime Pierpoint executive, Eric is brilliant, volatile, and ruthlessly pragmatic, frequently crossing ethical lines in pursuit of power. He rose through the firm’s New York headquarters under the late MD Newman, remaining conflicted between admiration for Newman and the racism Newman directed at him. [2] Eric is longtime friends with FICC head Bill Adler, whom he once hired and who later surpassed him in rank. [2] Married to Candice Allbright with two daughters, Eric takes Harper Stern on as a protégé, recognizing her ambition as a reflection of his own.
In season 1, Eric salvages a disastrous trade Harper executes and admits he knows she never graduated from college but does not care. His relationship with key client Felim Bichan collapses after Eric makes offensive remarks in front of Felim’s wife. When Harper fails to recover the account, Eric traps and berates her in a conference room, prompting Daria Greenock to push Harper to report him, leading to Eric’s firing. On reduction-in-force day, Adler convinces Harper to retract her complaint to reinstate Eric, resulting in Daria’s dismissal.
In season 2, Eric briefly regains Felim as client, only to lose him permanently after Harper goes behind Eric's back to sell a controlling stake in healthcare startup Rican to Jesse Bloom, undermining Eric’s position. [3] Adler confronts Eric over sustained underperformance, sidelines him from the trading floor, and relegates him to a marginal role. While in New York, Eric cheats on his wife with Newman’s widow Holly. [2] When Pierpoint plans to merge its London and New York desks, Eric and Harper engineer a survival pitch that preserves London by sacrificing Rishi and DVD. After Harper becomes implicated in insider trading, Eric protects her by exposing her forged transcripts instead, getting her fired. [4]
In season 3, Eric leads the merged CPS/FX desk. Separated from Candice and newly sober with Kenny’s help, he is promoted to partner but ordered by Adler to fire a senior colleague, leading him to impulsively fire Kenny. Eric uncovers that the debt Pierpoint issued to fund its pivot to ESG is nearing maturity amid failed IPOs and realizes the firm is close to collapse. Adler later reveals to Eric he is dying of a brain tumor. [5] Eric drunkenly makes a pass at Yasmin, which she rejects. [6] Learning that Harper is shorting Pierpoint using ESG data obtained from Yasmin, Eric fires Yasmin after images of her father’s drowned body leak. [7] As Pierpoint’s debt crisis becomes public and its stock collapses, Eric ultimately exploits Adler's illness to sabotage him during acquisition talks and engineers Pierpoint’s sale to Egyptian sovereign wealth fund Al-Mi’raj via internal connections. [8] Though the acquisition costs Eric his job due to the closure of the London trading floor, he leaves with a substantial severance, personally informing his team and calling Harper to wish her well. [1]
Rishi Ramdani
Rishi Ramdani (Sagar Radia) is an associate trader and market maker on Pierpoint’s CPS desk, known for his obscene humor, aggressive risk-taking, and constant background commentary on the trading floor. Initially a peripheral figure in season 1, he becomes central from season 2 onward.
In season 2, Rishi begins openly hostile toward Harper, resenting her extended remote work after the COVID-19 pandemic. She earns back his respect by narrowly placing Rican shares with Jesse Bloom after Felim Bichan exits the deal, and later by secretly selling Anna Gearing’s stake to Jesse behind Eric’s back. Their alliance collapses when Harper manipulates Rishi into helping unload Jesse’s FastAide position against Pierpoint’s interests. Despite this, Rishi joins Harper, Eric, and DVD in a bid away from Pierpoint when Bill Adler plans to merge London and New York. Harper and Eric ultimately preserve London by offering Rishi and DVD up as expendable. On the day of Rishi’s wedding to Diana, he has cocaine-fueled sex with Harper, unaware of her impending betrayal. After Harper is fired for falsifying transcripts, Rishi keeps his job. [4]
In season 3, Rishi and Diana have a baby and move to the countryside, where Rishi clashes with her wealthy family. He repeatedly cheats, including with Sweetpea Golightly, bullies junior trader Anraj Chabra, and hides a severe gambling addiction, owing over £200,000 to loan shark and former friend Vinay. He also places a massive £300 million long position on pound sterling, gambling on a rumored UK tax cut. After a disastrous casino binge, Diana agrees to cover his debts—only for Rishi’s trade to suddenly net £18 million when the tax cut is approved, prompting him to immediately take out another gambling loan. [9] When Pierpoint’s stock collapses on its 150th anniversary, Rishi correctly deduces an acquisition after spotting the Barclays CEO. He interviews with Harper for a hedge fund role, only find that the job offer is a sham designed to humiliate him in front of Sweetpea and Anraj, who she has hired. On Rishi's birthday, Vinay confronts Diana over Rishi’s debts and murders her, leaving Rishi traumatized. [1]
Jackie Walsh
Jackie Walsh (Caoilfhionn Dunne) is a VP on Pierpoint's FX desk, working alongside Kenny. She is shown to have a kind nature despite her crass sense of humor and seemingly blasé attitude about Pierpoint's work culture. Throughout the first season, she appears to play along with Kenny's workplace bullying, but chastises Yasmin for emulating it in season 2 during Kenny's absence, telling her she is above such behavior. Jackie joins Yasmin and Harper on a trip to Berlin to take over for Yasmin as Anna Gearing's FX contact, after Yasmin announces her departure from FX to private wealth management. Anna takes an immediate liking to Jackie for her acerbic wit.
In season 3, Jackie is shown to have left Pierpoint for Goldman Sachs, joining Daria and Kenny in helping Harper short Pierpoint.
Bill Adler
Bill Adler (Trevor White) is the global head of FICC (Fixed Income, Currencies and Commodities) at Pierpoint, and is based out of the New York headquarters. Adler is a ruthless pragmatist fiercely devoted to the firm; he is also a longtime friend of Eric, who initially hired him, but as his senior, he is shown to feel entitled to Eric's loyalty and support.
Adler first appears in the first-season finale to vet new grads on reduction-in-force (RIF) day. He makes Harper a deal to reinstate Eric after she got him fired for his verbal abuse in the workplace.
In season 2, Eric visits Adler in the New York office while taking two weeks off following his loss of Felim Bichan as a client. Eric confronts Adler on paying him and his team less, accusing him of trying to merge the New York and London offices. He asks to have Daniel "DVD" Van Deventer fired, but Adler tells Eric that he has been underperforming for several quarters in a row; rather than firing Eric, he relegates him to a corner office away from the trading floor. DVD later goes to Adler to report client Nicole Craig's sexual assault of new hire Venetia Berens, but Adler tells him to bury the case. Harper and Eric later go to Adler proposing a leaner London office, offering up Rishi and DVD as disloyal sacrifices, and threatening to go publicize Pierpoint's culture of suppression. Adler accepts their terms, leading to CPS and FX being consolidated, and DVD fired. [4]
In season 3, the board promotes Eric to partner, but Adler tells Eric to fire one of his traders to prove his mettle. Eric impulsively fires Kenny on the day of green-tech startup Lumi's IPO, angering Adler. Adler himself joins the trading floor to help assuage buyers' concerns in light of the tumultuous IPO. Afterwards, Adler takes extended time away from work, eventually revealing to Eric that he has a malignant brain tumor, and may not live longer than a year. [5] Pierpoint's stock later plummets when the debt they issued years ago to fund their unsuccessful pivot to ESG hits maturity. Adler is one of the many executives summoned by newly-appointed CEO Tom Wolsey to help the firm find a buyer. Adler clashes with CFO Wilhelmina Fassbinder over her desire to sell to Barclays, fearing that Pierpoint's legacy is at stake. Adler brokers a meeting with Mitsubishi executives, promising Eric major rewards for remaining by his side. However, Eric, realizing he needs to break free from Adler's influence, exploits Adler's illness during the meeting by gaslighting him into believing he overlooked a major error in the deal sheet. Adler has a breakdown and reveals his prognosis to the room; Eric escorts him out, and Adler realizes Eric betrayed him. [8] Six months later, Adler has died, with Pierpoint organizing his memorial. [1]
Venetia Berens
Venetia Berens (Indy Lewis) is a new grad who joins Pierpoint's FX desk in the second season. She is first seen in season 1 at a Pierpoint recruiting event, pressing Robert and Yasmin on the firm's toxic culture. Ambitious and idealistic, Venetia is determined to prove herself within Pierpoint's cutthroat work environment, provoking resentment from Yasmin over not having to face the same mistreatment she suffered in her first year. While scouting new recruits, Venetia grows closer to Robert, to whom she is attracted, but Robert humiliates her when he makes an aggressive pitch to a student while on cocaine, wherein he suggests that Venetia is merely using achievement to seek external validation. Venetia later barges into a client dinner between Robert and Nicole Craig, unaware that they are in a sexual relationship; after Robert leaves the two alone, Nicole sexually assaults Venetia. Venetia confides this to Yasmin, but she dismisses her concerns. Venetia then goes to Kenny, who attempts to report the assault up the chain of command, but to no avail.
In season 3, Venetia and Robert have begun dating. Venetia, growing increasingly tired of Pierpoint's abusive work environment, eventually quits the firm. While leaving, she reveals to Rishi that she was the one who anonymously posted to a Reddit page called "Overheard At Pierpoint", which contained many of Rishi's lewd and inappropriate comments on the trading floor.
Daniel Van Deventer
Daniel Van Deventer (Alex Akpobome), nicknamed "DVD", is a Pierpoint trader who arrives in the London office from New York amid a rumored push to consolidate the two locations. DVD is a former protegé of Eric's, and his rise to a position of authority within Pierpoint makes Eric feel threatened. DVD takes over Eric's duties after Eric takes two weeks off while reeling from the loss of Felim Bichan as a client; DVD and Adler later maneuver to have Eric relegated to a menial position in a corner office, while DVD takes over for him as CPS MD. DVD begins a sexual relationship with Harper, and invites her to join the New York headquarters amid plans to shut down the London office; Harper is apprehensive due to her traumatic upbringing in New York. DVD is later forced to suspend Harper from the trading floor after listening in on one of her calls to Jesse Bloom, during which she helps him get rid of his holdings at Pierpoint's expense, deceiving Rishi along the way.
DVD becomes disillusioned with Pierpoint after Adler tells him to ignore Nicole Craig's sexual assault of new hire Venetia Berens. He also sympathizes with Harper after learning that she too was sexually assaulted by Nicole, and agrees to join Harper, Eric and Rishi in their move away from Pierpoint. However, upon receiving an offer that would require them to relocate to New York against their wishes, Harper and Eric secretly go to Adler with a pitch for a leaner London office, offering DVD and Rishi up as disloyal to the firm. DVD is hence fired alongside much of the London office, and only finds out when he realizes his employee badge no longer works.
Celeste Pacquet
Celeste Pacquet (Katrine De Candole) is a private wealth manager at Pierpoint. Yasmin meets her at a party hosted by her family friend Maxim Alonso, and Celeste plays along with Yasmin's assumption that she is a sex worker before eventually revealing her actual job. Yasmin, growing disgruntled with the FX desk, becomes increasingly drawn to working for PWM, in part due to her escalating flirtation with Celeste. Yasmin and Celeste eventually have sex, but Celeste reveals she is already in an open marriage with her wife and resents the power imbalance in their relationship, making Yasmin realize their affair is not as significant as she imagined. Yasmin brings in her father, Charles Hanani, as a PWM client, but soon regrets it after learning about his various affairs and subsequent NDA settlements, realizing he is a sexual predator. Celeste refuses to cut ties with Charles despite knowing about his inappropriate behavior firsthand, telling Yasmin that it is "better to work within a system and succeed than to wish for it to change and be left behind." A disillusioned Yasmin cuts ties with Celeste shortly thereafter. [4]
Anraj Chabra
Anraj Chabra (Irfan Shamji) is a mild-mannered junior trader at Pierpoint working under Rishi, who frequently takes his anger out on him. Rishi uses Anraj's account to run a £300 million long on pound sterling against the US dollar, raising major flags at Pierpoint's risk division (and jeopardizing Anraj's job and FCA license) until Rishi miraculously nets £18 million from the investment due to a last-minute tax cut by the UK government. Rishi also steals some of Anraj's money (claiming he is using it to bet on horse races) to gamble away at a casino. Anraj later admits that he is afraid to come to work because of Rishi's volatile behavior. Anraj and Sweetpea become friends over the course of their time at Pierpoint, in part due to their mutual frustration with Rishi, and the two are ultimately hired by Harper at her hedge fund, LeviathanAlpha, after Pierpoint's new owners shut down the London trading floor. [1]
Sweetpea Golightly
Sweetpea Golightly (Miriam Petche) is a new Pierpoint hire with TikTok and OnlyFans businesses on the side. She is revealed to have had an affair with Rishi, who subscribes to her OnlyFans page. Sweetpea is shown to be a shrewd and competent trader despite her seemingly carefree and social media-obsessed personality. She eventually discovers that a hefty debt Pierpoint issued five years ago to fund their pivot to ESG is reaching maturity, but cannot be paid off since the firm's ESG investments are not making any returns. She reports this to Eric, who tells her to keep it quiet; Harper later overhears Sweetpea telling Yasmin in the bathroom, and uses this information to plan a short of Pierpoint. After Pierpoint is sold to Al-Miraj Holdings, Sweetpea leaves the firm to go work for Harper alongside Anraj.
Wilhelmina Fassbinder
Wilhelmina Fassbinder (Georgina Rich) is the ambitious new CFO of Pierpoint, and an early champion of the firm's pivot to ESG. She is frequently at odds with Adler, whose influence she warns Eric not to succumb to. Wilhelmina helps new Pierpoint CEO Tom Wolsey salvage the company's future amid a debt crisis, advocating for an ultimately unsuccessful acquisition by Barclays. After Eric brokers a sale to the Egyptian sovereign wealth fund at Adler's expense, Wilhelmina retains her title while both Eric and Tom lose their jobs. Eric admits to being impressed by Wilhelmina's Machiavellian attitude towards her principles. [8] [1]
Ali El Mansour
Ali El Mansour (Fady Elsayed) is a new trader Adler hired due to his family ties to the Egyptian sovereign wealth fund. To rescue Pierpoint from a fatal debt crisis, Eric reaches out to Ali to have him bring in his family as the firm's buyers. Pierpoint is thereby absorbed into Al-Miraj, a holding company for the Egyptian sovereign wealth, who decide to consolidate the firm's trading to the New York headquarters. [8] [1]
Frank Wade
Frank Wade (Joel Kim Booster) is a research analyst at Pierpoint covering the energy sector. After the tumultuous IPO of green-energy startup Lumi, Wade publishes a research report with a "hold" recommendation on Lumi stock, which is tantamount to a "sell" given that Pierpoint underwrote the IPO. [10]
Tom Wolsey
Tom Wolsey (Harry Hadden-Paton) is the newly-appointed CEO of Pierpoint, brought on to help steer the firm through its debt crisis. Tom assembles an emergency committee of senior executives to help salvage Pierpoint when its stock plummets the day of its 150th anniversary. After several failed attempts to find a buyer for the firm, Eric finally brokers a sale with Al-Miraj, a firm representing the Egyptian sovereign wealth fund. Tom is fired as CEO because the Egyptian government would not approve of his homosexuality. [8]
Other main cast members
Nicole Craig
Nicole Craig (Sarah Parish) is the CEO of investment fund Mallon Mercer, and a major Pierpoint client. Despite being an outspoken feminist in public, Nicole is in fact a serial sexual predator who preys on young targets. She initially makes a drunken advance on Harper in the car ride home from their first client meeting together; Harper continues a business relationship with Nicole to keep her job, but eventually antagonizes Nicole into cutting ties with her herself.
In season 2, Robert, looking to make more outgoing calls, wins Nicole back as a Pierpoint client by being endearingly honest about feeling out of his depth at the job. The two connect over dinner, and Nicole masturbates him in the car on the way home. [11] The two continue an illicit sexual relationship for months onward, with Robert projecting many of his unresolved issues with his late mother onto the domineering Nicole. Robert later learns from Harper that Nicole made an advance on her the previous year. Nicole later sexually assaults new hire Venetia Berens, who Robert left alone with Nicole during a client dinner that went sideways. Venetia attempts to report the assault, to no avail. Robert tries to cut ties with Nicole afterwards, but she reestablishes her control over him after bailing him out when he is arrested for cocaine possession. [4]
In season 3, Robert and Nicole are still engaged in their affair; Robert spends a night with her, only to suddenly find her dead the next morning. He later returns to her house to retrieve a necklace Venetia gave him, and discovers that she has an estranged 15-year-old daughter who is well aware of her numerous affairs. Nicole's exact cause of death is not specified, but is said to be of natural causes. [6] [12]
Felim Bichan
Felim Bichan (Andrew Buchan) is a Scottish hedge fund manager and initially Pierpoint's biggest client with a decades-long client relationship with Eric. A firm, principled man who ascended from humble beginnings, Felim decides to cut ties with Eric and Pierpoint after Eric drunkenly makes offensive comments in front of Felim's wife. On Eric's orders, Harper attempts to coax Felim back to the firm, but Felim gently warns Harper not to fall prey to Eric's malign influence.
In season 2, Felim returns as Pierpoint's client so long as Harper act the intermediary between he and Eric. Harper, however, blows off a client meeting with Eric and Felim to meet with notorious independent investor Jesse Bloom, who she is courting as a client. Felim is initially the anchor on a $3.3 billion block trade for shares of healthcare startup Rican, with Eric promising him pre-buy stock options. Felim, however, pulls out of the trade after Harper misses the client meeting, as it reaffirms his distrust of Eric, and Harper sells the shares to Bloom at the last minute instead. [11]
Felim, Bloom, Harper and Eric attend a duck shoot in Wales for Rican investors, which Pierpoint initially organized to celebrate Felim's planned purchase of Rican stock. Felim and Bloom remain at odds since Felim rejects his modest beginnings while Bloom embraces his, and Felim chastises Harper for gravitating towards bullies. Bloom later injures Felim's face with shrapnel while trying to shoot a rare pheasant. Eric plans to have Bloom to sell his shares to Felim at the shoot, but Harper instead covertly helps Bloom buy a controlling stake in Rican from FutureDawn Partners, a socially-conscious investment fund, seeing as Rican is underperforming and hiding it from Felim to ensure his investment. Felim, realizing Eric has yet again failed to deliver on his promises, cuts ties with him for good. [3]
Usman Abboud
Usman Abboud (Amir El-Masry) is the assistant to Kaspar Zenden, Clement's sole client. Usman puts on a professional facade for Kaspar, pretending to be conservative and abstinent from alcohol and drugs, but reveals himself as a hard-partying, homosexual playboy to Robert and later Greg. After Clement is fired from Pierpoint, Usman tells Robert that Kaspar no longer wishes to continue his relationship with Pierpoint.
Maxim Alonso
Maxim Alonso (Nicholas Bishop) is a hedge fund manager and old family friend of Yasmin's, placed in charge of overseeing her father Charles' assets. Maxim has a tense, quasi-brotherly relationship with Yasmin throughout season 1, especially after a client meeting with him goes south thanks to the misbehavior of Yasmin's abusive boss Kenny. In season 2, Maxim's fund goes bankrupt, prompting him to throw an excessive, drug-fueled party where and Yasmin end up having sex. While initially continuing their tryst, Yasmin grows distant from Maxim after becoming privy to Charles' numerous extramarital affairs and subsequent NDA settlements, which she is angry at Maxim for not telling her about. Maxim later drunkenly tries to force himself on Yasmin in bed, causing her to cut ties with him.
In season 3, Maxim reaches out to Yasmin while camping in Northern California to tell her that Hanani Publishing was complicit in Charles' sexual misconduct, providing several of his victims with sham jobs in exchange for their silence. He explains that the company primarily wants to make Yasmin the face of the scandal to hide their own involvement. [8]
Charles Hanani
Charles Hanani (Adam Levy) is Yasmin's father, and the wealthy CEO of the Hanani Publishing company. Charles is a serial philanderer, long divorced from Yasmin's mother Azar. He has a strained relationship with Yasmin, whom he treats like a child, and who carries trauma from growing up around her father's sexually inappropriate behavior.
Charles reenters Yasmin’s life in season 2 when he arrives in London on business. Hoping to transition into Pierpoint’s private wealth management division, Yasmin brings him on as a client, only to learn that much of his fortune has been drained by nondisclosure settlements with women he had affairs with—including her former nanny, leading Yasmin to realize he likely groomed her. When confronted, Charles attacks Yasmin for condemning him while benefiting from his wealth and cuts her off financially. [4]
In season 3, Yasmin joins Charles on his yacht in Italy and catches him performing oral sex on a pregnant employee. Amid revelations that he is being sued by his own company for historic embezzlement, the two engage in a vicious confrontation in which Yasmin accuses him of sexualizing her throughout her life. A drunken Charles jumps overboard after Yasmin wishes him dead, and she makes no attempt to save him; Harper helps cover up her involvement. [7] After Charles’ body is recovered, Hanani Publishing scapegoats Yasmin to deflect from its own complicity in silencing his victims, prompting her to sue the company. [8] Later, Yasmin hires Alondra—the woman from the yacht—who implies Charles abused girls as young as twelve and gently suggests Yasmin may have been a victim as well, triggering Yasmin’s emotional collapse. Lord Norton, a former Oxford classmate of Charles’, later confirms he always knew Charles to be a sexual predator going back to his Oxford days. [1]
Leo Bloom
Leo Bloom (Sonny Poon Tip) is Jesse's wayward, estranged 19-year-old son. Jesse hires Gus to tutor Leo on his college admissions essays to Oxford and Cambridge despite Leo's disinterest in school, and Leo and Gus soon begin a sexual relationship. Over time, Gus helps Leo discover his academic ambitions, and Leo is grateful for the experience despite not being admitted to either of his choice schools. Gus later utilizes his connections at Oxford to land Leo an admission, and Jesse hires Gus as his assistant in return after Gus loses his government job. [4]
Anna Gearing
Anna Gearing (Elena Saurel) is the head of FutureDawn Partners, a socially conscious investment fund. Despite her ethical business philosophy, Anna is shown to have expensive personal tastes, and micromanages employees at her fund. She has two daughters, with her longtime portfolio manager Petra Koenig as their godmother.
Anna first appears as a client of Pierpoint, with Yasmin Kara-Hanani hedging her FX exposure. Harper meets Anna at a Pierpoint-organized duck shoot in Wales tied to healthcare startup Rican, where Anna bluntly assesses Rican as fundamentally underperforming and incapable of delivering on its social mission. Harper uses this insight to convince Jesse Bloom to buy out Anna’s stake—after already selling him $3.3 billion in shares—securing his controlling interest and long-term profit. [3] After Harper is fired from Pierpoint, she joins FutureDawn as Anna’s executive assistant, but quickly aligns herself with Petra, who grows disillusioned with Anna’s leadership. Tensions peak when Harper helps Petra hedge Lumi IPO exposure by buying credit default swaps on fossil-fuel assets, directly contradicting FutureDawn’s ethical stance. [13] Harper and Petra ultimately break away to form their own hedge fund, publicly announcing the move at a Swiss climate conference attended by Anna. [10]
Aurore Adekunle
Aurore Adekunle (Faith Alabi) is a Tory MP. She is introduced in season 2 as an ally of Anna Gearing, joining her on a duck shoot in Wales hosted by Pierpoint for investors in healthcare startup Rican. Gus strikes up a friendship with Aurore at the shoot, and she hires him to work at her government office to help handle her mounting meetings with constituents. [3] Gus later leaks to Harper that the government is allowing Amazon to acquire drugstore chain FastAide, jeopardizing Jesse's planned short of the company; Harper tells Jesse, who criticizes the acquisition on live TV, thereby reviving the government inquiry - boosting Aurore's reputation - while saving his own short. Aurore, however, is forced to fire Gus after he lets slip that he was the source of the leak, even though the information ended up helping her. [4]
Aurore reappears in season 3, having been promoted to Energy Secretary; she publicly champions Henry Muck's green-energy startup Lumi, while privately scheming with Henry's uncle Lord Norton and godfather Otto Mostyn to elevate her own position in government. Aurore publicly takes responsibility for Lumi's collapse during a government inquest, thereby positioning her for a future bid for Prime Minister. [5] She and Norton later capitalize on the news of Barclays' failed acquisition of Pierpoint, framing it in the news as an antitrust win for Aurore. [8]
Henry Muck
Henry Muck (Kit Harington) is the CEO of Lumi, a green energy startup. Henry is a spoiled, wealthy aristocrat with a history of depression following his father's suicide, and an erratic, mercurial business leader.
Henry is introduced in season 3 as Lumi prepares for an IPO underwritten by Pierpoint. On the day of the listing, he behaves recklessly—returning a major investor’s shares after being challenged on inflated earnings, taking psychedelics, and speaking to the press against advice—leading to a physical confrontation with Robert. The IPO survives only after Yasmin engineers publicity around a meeting between Henry, his godfather Otto Mostyn, and a power-company investor, producing a last-minute stock boost. In return, Henry—sexually drawn to Yasmin—uses his uncle Lord Norton, a newspaper proprietor, to suppress damaging coverage of her father’s scandal.
As Lumi unravels, Henry accepts that the company was never viable, admitting to Yasmin that it existed mainly to stave off his depression. They begin a sexual relationship that soon collapses after Lumi’s failure triggers a government inquest and sexual harassment complaints against Henry surface. Henry's politically connected allies deflect blame, but Yasmin ends the relationship after Henry dismisses the allegations and humiliates her in front of his friends. Weeks later, Henry's family proposes marriage to Yasmin as a solution to her reputational problems; she accepts for protection and security. Months later, Yasmin’s public image is fully rehabilitated through their marriage.
Petra Koenig
Petra Koenig (Sarah Goldberg) is a portfolio manager at FutureDawn Partners, and one of Anna's closest associates. Her relationship with Anna has soured over the years: Petra is godmother to Anna's children, but feels she was forced to accept the role due to Anna's seniority, and notes that it was Anna who pushed for a personal friendship with her. Petra's shrewd pragmatism also puts her at odds with Anna's dogged commitment to FutureDawn's socially conscious ethos, which Petra considers vain and naive. [13]
While working as Anna's executive assistant, Harper helps Petra hedge her exposure on the chaotic Lumi IPO by enabling her to buy credit default swaps on oil and natural gas shares, leveraging her relationship with Yasmin to do so. Petra, impressed with Harper and growing disillusioned with Anna's leadership, decides to start her own hedge fund with Harper, which the two later name LeviathanAlpha. The two obtain seed funding from Otto Mostyn, and hire Pierpoint as their broker. [10]
Harper and Petra decide to short Pierpoint after learning that the firm's ESG investments are spiraling and that no one wants custody of the company's maturing debt used to fund their ESG pivot. The two enlist Daria, Kenny and Jackie - all having moved to Goldman Sachs - help them short their former employer. [7] However, Harper later admits to Petra that she first overheard talk of Pierpoint's debt crisis while using their restroom, which would make the short illegal. [8] A panicked Petra reports this to Otto, who privately tells Harper that he admires her ruthlessness. Harper reconciles with Petra, and the two agree to no longer make unilateral decisions. They decide to call off their Pierpoint short and end their relationship with Otto. However, Harper later secretly partners with Otto to start her own fund in New York dedicated to shorting corrupt companies. [1]
Alexander Norton
Viscount Alexander Norton (Andrew Havill) is Henry Muck's uncle, and a powerful newspaper proprietor who owns a number of tabloids. Norton is a wealthy nobleman who owns a large estate in the English countryside, and a former classmate of Charles Hanani during their time at Oxford. Norton and Otto are also secretly allies of Aurore Adekunle, helping her take advantage of both the downfall of Lumi and the failed acquisition of Pierpoint by Barclays to publicly position herself as a PM candidate. At the end of season 3, Norton convinces Yasmin to marry Henry, telling her that he is fiercely protective of his family, and that he can stop the negative press coverage she is facing amid her father's embezzlement scandal and subsequent death. He also tells Yasmin that he was always aware Charles was a sexual predator, dating back to his college days. Yasmin ultimately agrees to marry Henry due to the protection and financial security she is guaranteed from joining his clan. [1]
Otto Mostyn
Otto Mostyn (Roger Barclay) is Henry's godfather, and a fellow classmate of Charles Hanani from Oxford alongside Norton. A sinister, calculating businessman, Otto takes interest in Harper due to her cunning and ruthlessness, and agrees to provide seed funding to LeviathanAlpha, the hedge fund she is starting with Petra Koenig. Otto, Norton, and Aurore are also in a secretive cabal to advance their interests via the government. Petra calls Otto after learning that Harper committed insider trading by acting on confidential information she overheard to short Pierpoint. Otto summons Harper to a meeting, where instead of reprimanding her, he tells her he wants her to succeed him in running his investment fund. Harper and Petra ultimately decide to call off the short and end their partnership with Otto to keep their fund above-board, but Harper later teams up with Otto to start her own fund in New York dedicated to shorting corrupt companies over whom she and Otto would have leverage. [1]
Denise Oldroyd
Denise Oldroyd (Fiona Button) is Yasmin's lawyer, and sister of her ex-boyfriend Seb. Denise represents Yasmin following the publication of her father's historic embezzlement from the family publishing company. She also has a brief affair with Eric that begins after he joins her and Yasmin on a cocaine bender. [6] When Hanani Publishing decides to pay off Charles' various legal settlements in exchange for making Yasmin the face of the scandal, Denise encourages Yasmin to go along with the deal to protect the victims of Charles' sexual abuse, but Yasmin decides to fight her father's company in court. [1]
Caedi McFarlane
Caedi McFarlane (Eliot Salt) is Henry Muck's personal assistant at Lumi, whose presence often calms him during his erratic outbursts. Caedi later files an anonymous complaint against Henry for repeated sexual harassment, which is mentioned in the government inquest against Lumi following its collapse. [5]
James Ashford
James Ashford (Tom Stourton) is an investor from Bear Stearns, and one of Lumi's primary investors. The day of the company's IPO, he confronts Henry about Lumi's inflated quarterly earnings reports and asks whether Pierpoint overvalued the company; Henry dismisses Ashford's concerns and returns his shares, forcing Pierpoint to scramble to find new investors. [6] Harper later runs into Ashford in the park and learns from him that most banks are backtracking on their ESG investments, corroborating what she overheard Sweetpea telling Yasmin about Pierpoint's impending debt crisis. Harper uses what Ashford told her as legal cover for shorting Pierpoint. [7]
Xander Lindt
Xander Lindt (Gustav Lindh) is a cocky young heir of the Lindt chocolate empire, and a member of Henry's entourage. He repeatedly demeans Yasmin after she rejects his sexual advances at a Swiss climate conference. [10]
Vinay Sarkar
Vinay Sarkar (Asim Chaudhry) is Rishi's loan shark, and primary source of his gambling money. Rishi initially owes Vinay £200,000, which he is able to pay off after netting £18 million from his long on cable following a federal tax cut. [9] Rishi, however, takes out another £50,000 loan to gamble away, and in the following months, his debt to Vinay inflates beyond £500,000. Vinay shows up unannounced to Rishi's apartment on the latter's birthday to tell Rishi and Diana how much he is owed; when Diana begins to berate Vinay for his predatory behavior and for enabling Rishi's gambling addiction, Vinay shoots her in the head and leaves. [1]
Recurring characters and guest stars
Justin Klineman
Justin Klineman (Joshua James) is Pierpoint's head of HR. He is first seen pressing Harper to send over her college transcripts, unaware she never graduated; Harper sends forged documents. Eric, aware of Harper's past, reports her deceit to HR at the end of season 2, and Justin fires her. In season 3, Justin and another HR rep confront Rishi over his lewd and inappropriate comments on the trading floor, which he angrily dismisses. After Pierpoint is acquired by Al-Miraj, a holding company for the Egyptian sovereign wealth, the London trading firm is shut down, and Justin presides over a slew of employee terminations including Eric's.
Lucinda Young
Lucinda Young (Ruby Bentall) is a VP on Pierpoint's Investment Banking Division (IBD), overseeing Gus and Hari. She tacitly encourages Hari to overwork during his first week on the job; after Hari dies of a heart attack, Lucinda feels guilty, and worries whether she will be held culpable for Hari's death, telling Gus to vouch for her with HR. Lucinda is briefly seen in season 2 meeting with executives from healthcare startup Rican, for whom Pierpoint is helping engineer a major trade.
Seb Oldroyd
Sebastian Oldroyd (Jonathan Barnwell) is Yasmin's deadbeat, underachieving boyfriend. He lives in her expensive Notting Hill apartment, and spends most of his time getting high with his childhood friends. The lack of sexual passion in their relationship leads Yasmin to flirt with Robert. Seb attempts to make homemade sushi at a party thrown by Yasmin, but he accidentally cuts his hand with a knife, and the party is overall a failure. Yasmin decides to finally break up with Seb that night. Seb later visits Yasmin at work on reduction-in-force (RIF) day trying to make amends, but Yasmin rejects him for good, telling him he nearly killed her sex life.
Todd Barber
Todd Barber (Branden Cook) is Harper's ex-boyfriend from New York. The two remain sexually involved after their breakup, and he helps her forge her university transcripts when she is hired to Pierpoint. Todd later visits Harper in London; the two have a fight after Harper discovers he stole an expensive jacket from a patron at the nightclub they went to, where Todd calls Harper a coward and a hypocrite. Harper cuts ties with him for good.
Azar Kara
Azar Kara (Helene Maksoud) is Yasmin's mother, long divorced from her philandering husband and Yasmin's father Charles Hanani. She and Yasmin also have a strained relationship.
Candice Allbright
Candice Allbright (Alexandra Moen) is Eric's wife, with whom he has two daughters. She and Eric share a profane sense of humor. She later divorces Eric between seasons 2 and 3.
Kaspar Zenden
Kaspar Zenden (Kåre Conradi) is a Dutch hedge fund manager, and the sole client of Pierpoint VP Clement Cowan. He cuts ties with Pierpoint after Clement is fired.
Diana Ramdani
Diana Ramdani (Brittany Ashworth, season 2; Emily Barber, season 3) is Rishi's fiancée and later wife. Though she and Rishi have similar personalities, Rishi struggles to get along with Diana's wealthy white family due to racial and class disparities. In season 3, Diana is a housewife raising she and Rishi's newborn on a country estate the two purchased; their marriage is strained due to mutual infidelity and Rishi's gambling addiction, which has put him in severe financial debt. The two are separated by the end of season 3, with Diana living in an apartment in the city; Rishi comes to visit her for his birthday, but his loan shark Vinay is waiting for him, revealing to Diana that Rishi owes him over half a million pounds. When Diana begins to berate Vinay for his predatory behavior, Vinay shoots her dead and escapes.
Holly Newman
Holly Newman (Anna Wilson-Jones) is the widow of Eric's first boss and mentor, Newman. She and Eric were in a relationship while working as junior associates in New York, but Holly began an affair with Newman and later married him. She and Eric reconnect after Newman's death when Eric visits the New York office, and Eric secretly cheats on his wife with Holly before flying back to London.
John-Daniel Stern
John-Daniel "JD" Stern (Adain Bradley) is Harper's estranged twin brother, who disappeared from her life when the two were teenagers. In season 2, Harper tracks down her brother to Berlin, where he works as a line cook. The two spend the night at a club, and the next morning, JD relapses on his meth addiction. The two have a vicious argument over their childhood growing up with an abusive mother; JD reveals he ran away in part due to Harper exacerbating the pressure their mother put on him to be a star tennis player, but Harper maintains that she too escaped a traumatic upbringing. Harper begs JD to come home with her, but rebuffs her, branding his sister a selfish narcissist who was complicit in the abuse he suffered. Harper is left deeply shaken by the encounter.
Robert Spearing Sr.
Robert Spearing Sr. (Rick Warden) is Robert's working-class father, who works as a bartender. Robert Sr. was largely absent throughout his son's upbringing, which he left to Robert's domineering mother who died prior to the events of the series. Robert Sr. since remarried and had two children with his new wife, while remaining estranged from Robert. Robert visits his father in season 2, and breaks his sobriety after an argument with him. Robert Sr. finds his son drunk and passed out outside his apartment, and lets him stay the night; the two reconcile the morning after, with Robert Sr. assuring his son he has nothing to apologize for.
Jamie Henson
Jamie Henson (James Nelson-Joyce) is a constituent of Aurore Adekunle. He suffers from mental illness and repeatedly visits her office demanding to speak with her, claiming that unspecified people are harassing him and defecating on his street. Gus, working for Aurore, takes time to listen to Jamie's concerns, and refers him to a therapist. The two form a friendship that makes Gus realize he enjoys helping everyday people more than working in finance, until Aurore is forced to fire Gus.
Sadie Sackey
Sadie Sackey (Naana Agyei-Ampadu) is Gus' older sister, who works as a doctor for the National Health Service. Gus is closer to her than the rest of his overbearing family, but she too admonishes him to leave his low-paying but emotionally fulfilling job at Aurore Adekunle's public office in favor of something more lucrative and high-profile.
Naomi Anderson
Naomi Anderson (Olivia Grant) is a Pierpoint attorney who helps the company through a government inquest against Lumi following its collapse. She and Eric decide to make Robert the scapegoat, which she reluctantly reveals to him following his tense testimony.
Lisa Dearn
Lisa Dearn (Chloe Pirrie) is a fiery, crusading prosecutor leading the government inquest against Lumi following its collapse. She presses Robert and Henry with pointed questions about Pierpoint's overvaluation of Lumi, as well as Henry's sexual harassment of his employees.
