Our latest comments, blogs, press releases and statements about the financial and related professional services industry can be found below.
In this guest blog ahead of speaking on a panel at the Future Skills Conference 2025, Garth Ledingham, Head of Future Skills and Learning Technology, Nationwide, explores the importance of strategically investing in workforce skills to meet evolving business and customer needs.
New economic research from TheCityUK underlines the substantial impact the UK-based financial and related professional services industry has on the UK economy
Matt Kelcher, our Director, Public Affairs, provides a brief overview on our position when it comes to the planning reforms currently under review.
TheCityUK is urging an immediate independent review of the justice system in England and Wales to develop a strategic plan that ensures its effectiveness and supports the government's economic growth objectives.
This blog post from Freshfields highlights a new report launched at our International Conference. The report suggests ways to refine the UK's national security and investment regime to boost economic growth and attract foreign direct investment. It highlights practical recommendations to improve the efficiency and transparency of the National Security and Investment Act while ensuring the protection of national security.
The report highlights that while the UK’s National Security & Investment Act (NS&I) provides investors with a comparatively predictable regime, it casts a very wide net over investment activity compared to screening regimes in other jurisdictions competing for investment.
Read the speech given by Anne Richards DBE, Chair of the Board, TheCityUK, to our International Conference 2025
Anjalika Bardalai, our Chief Economist and Director, Economic Research, looks into the crucial role Sovereign Investment Vehicles (SIVs), including Sovereign Wealth Funds, Public Pension Funds, and State-Owned Enterprises, play in generating financial returns for their nations.
The report provides a series of recommendations aimed at fostering bilateral growth between India and the UK’s equity capital markets. It urges policymakers to facilitate secondary listings on the London Stock Exchange for Indian companies already listed on the National Stock Exchange (NSE) and/or the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE), and vice versa.
The latest blog from our Director, International Development, Anna Rogers, which highlights how we’re supporting the establishment of an International Financial Centre in Ho Chi Minh City and Regional Financial Centre in Da Nang.
The report provides analysis of the latest available data (2022) on financial and related professional services exports from across Britain, reveals that around half (47%) of all industry exports originated outside London, with the South East, Scotland and the North West making the largest contributions.
Our CEO responds to the FCA's new 5-year strategy, highlighting the need for a shift in risk regulation to foster growth and maintain the UK’s status as a world-class financial centre.
