Our Eurasia, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) Market Advisory Group (MAG) provides thought-leadership and sets the strategic direction of UK-based financial and related professional services firms’ engagement in these regions.
We bring together senior practitioners from across the UK-based financial and related professional services industry to advise and provide insight on issues of greatest priority to the industry, and to support and develop policies that enhance trade and investment between the UK and markets in Eurasia, Middle East and Africa.
Our EMEA MAG is chaired by Adrian Cartwright, Global Partner, Clifford Chance.
Priorities of the EMEA MAG:
- Engaging policymakers, regulators and local industry to deepen financial and related professional services sector collaboration and improve bilateral trade and investment across all regions.
- Progressing key bilateral engagement across all regions in areas such as capital markets development, corporate governance, sustainable finance, FinTech, and regulatory cooperation.
- Providing industry input into bilateral government engagements and free trade agreements.
- Supporting the UK government’s economic development agenda in emerging markets, by delivering UK government funded technical assistance projects to develop open and well-regulated financial services sectors, consistent with international best practices in key markets.
Recent activities:
- Provision of the industry’s priorities to HM Government for the UK’s Free Trade Agreement negotiations with Türkiye and GCC.
- Engaging with Uzbekistan’s Ambassador to the UK to boost UK-Uzbekistan collaboration in FRPS.
- Supporting Saudi Tadawul Group’s Capital Markets Forum with industry engagement to strengthen ties between UK and Saudi Arabia in equity, bond and commodity markets.
- Leading a UK FPRS industries contribution to sustainability goals at COP 29 in Baku.
- Working with UK Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office and the Department of Business and Trade on a range of development projects in Eurasia, Middle East and Africa. We have led a project on Nigeria focused on developing an international financial centre (IFC) in Lagos, Nigeria. We have completed phase I of an international finance centre project in Oman.
For more information about our EMEA work programme please contact us.