COP30: No breakthrough, but ambition turns to implementation a decade on from Paris
Jessica Skedd, our Senior Policy Manager, Sustainability, reflects on key themes emerging from COP30 Brazil.
Our latest comments, blogs, press releases and statements about the financial and related professional services industry can be found below.
Jessica Skedd, our Senior Policy Manager, Sustainability, reflects on key themes emerging from COP30 Brazil.
Our Chief Executive Officer, Miles Celic OBE, responds to the Chancellor’s Autumn Budget 2025.
The report calls on the UK government to set a long-term strategy to transform the country from cautious savers into confident investors, highlighting that nearly 15 million people are missing out on opportunities by holding surplus wealth in cash.
The report looks at the current landscape and international position of the UK’s asset management sector, providing a data-driven assessment of its performance, structure and evolving client base both in the UK and worldwide.
In this guest blog, Dr Carol McNaughton Nicholls and Joshua Cohen of Thinks Insight & Strategy, reveals how their latest survey about pension investment preferences shows general agreement, but also clear political divisions for providers and policymakers to consider.
With jobs numbers and labour market trends receiving considerable public, policymaker and media attention at the moment, Anjalika Bardalai, our Chief Economist and Director, Economic Research has analysed the trends in financial services employment.
Jessica Skedd, our Senior Policy Manager, Sustainability, explores how COP30 in Belém marks the shift from promise to progress on climate solutions, and highlights the crucial role of the UK’s financial and related professional services industry in delivering climate solutions and supporting the COP30 Action Agenda.
Our new report with PwC UK finds that UK financial services firms now spend over £33.9bn a year on regulatory compliance, highlighting the need for collective action to simplify and streamline the system.
This release highlights the British American Finance Alliance’s (BAFA) call for stronger US–UK regulatory cooperation to boost growth, jobs and innovation across both markets.
The IRSG has published a new Global Regulatory Coherence Dashboard to map the extent of global alignment or divergence in financial regulations across key policy areas affecting UK-based financial and related professional services.
Matt Kelcher, our Director, Public Affairs, summarises our activity across this year’s party conferences, highlighting how we deepened relationships with policymakers and reinforced key connections.
In this guest blog Guernsey Finance highlight how Guernsey serves as a vital gateway for global investment into the UK, driving growth in key areas like green energy, infrastructure, and innovation thanks to its strong regulatory environment and diverse international investors.