Our annual report 'Navigating Change, Driving Growth', sets out the key outcomes and achievements we have delivered over the past year.
TheCityUK in numbers
331
events and meetings with over 7,300 attendees***
Our most popular email campaign open rates are over
30%
higher than the industry average**
Responded to
37
government, regulatory and
parliamentary consultations
Generated over
2,300
print, online and broadcast news pieces in over 12 countries***
140
meetings with policymakers and key political stakeholders
Increased LinkedIn followers by
13%
and over 600K impressions***
In our 2026 member survey*, we scored 90% or over for:
Building and maintaining relationships with policymakers
Our objectives and activities being aligned with those of our members
Our favourability among members
Our our events programme allowing members to engage on key issues with senior stakeholders
*TheCityUK member survey 2026, run independently by Mustard
**Source: Campaign Monitor
***Data inclusive of the period from July 2025 - 2026
Key outcomes
Campaigned and lobbied on the Financial Services and Markets Bill, which is currently going through Parliament and marks a major step towards reforms to strengthen growth and competitiveness
Achieved the inclusion of a three-year Stamp Duty holiday for newly UK-listed companies in the 2025 Budget.
Delivered industry asks for the UK-US Transatlantic Taskforce, ensuring a time-bound roadmap and strong industry engagement for the implementation phase.
Ensured innovation was central to wholesale markets reforms ahead of the appointment of Chris Woolard CBE as Wholesale Digital Markets Champion, representing a key step towards digitisation, tokenisation and greater competitiveness.
Developed international financial centres and financial reforms in markets including Ukraine, Vietnam, Mongolia, Azerbaijan and Nigeria.
Helped secure industry outcomes on the Financial Ombudsman Service and the Senior Managers and Certification Regime to improve competitiveness and reduce unnecessary regulatory burden
Helped dilute the Government’s proposed mandatory investment powers in the Pensions Schemes Act 2026.
Lobbied successfully against proposed new director liabilities, with the proposed legislation dropped.
Advanced devolution and regional investment by strengthening local investment propositions and influencing reforms to planning, local growth and devolved decision-making.
Offered practical ways the UK and the EU can collaborate and jointly finance important areas of the economy, such as defence and resilience, leading to increased jobs, investment and trade, through our report ‘Priorities for advancing UK-EU relations’.
Eliminated foreign ownership limits for Indian insurance companies through the work of the India-UK Financial Partnership.
Delivered technical teach-ins for UK local and devolved government for the Office for Investment’s Strategic Investment Opportunities Unit, while also showcasing investment opportunities to members.
Secured changes to standard venture capital and private equity investor documentation to prevent inadvertent exclusion of broad categories of defence and defence-related investment.
Set out how to capture greater growth from servicing global Islamic finance needs, the fastest-growing segment of the industry, through our report ‘Islamic finance and UK economic prosperity: A vision for growth’.
We remained focused on delivering our signatory commitments across the Women in Finance Charter and Race at Work Charter. For the financial year ending March 2026, and in our next Charter submission, we will report a senior management gender ratio of 57:43 women to men. We continued to monitor diversity across the organisation as part of our commitment to the Race at Work Charter. Of the 53 employees surveyed: 73.5% identified as White; 24.5% identified as Black or Asian, both of these increased year on year; and 2% identified as mixed ethnicity, which was down on last year.
