Professional Review of UK Capital Markets

Our Capital Markets Group concentrates on ensuring the long-lasting competitiveness of the UK's public equity markets. Members are professionals from throughout the capital markets and listing community and interested parties, with senior professionals from the buy side, sell side, intermediaries, and market bodies. The group brings together these voices to reflect the cross-industry nature of the monetary and related professional services industry's function in this community.

Identifying political, policy and regulative wins that can support the ambitions of the group. Advising and supporting broader TheCityUK activity to affect the policy and regulative environment, the media environment, market individuals, and to drive action on efficient options. Making sure that diverse cross-industry point of views are reflected in the group's outputs, and TheCityUK policy positions, outputs, and advocacy activities.

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The research, carried out by EY, is based upon in-depth quantitative analysis and over 100 interviews and surveys of market participants: including business creators, leaders of pre-IPO business, leaders of publicly traded companies, financiers, advisers, financial investment managers, and facilities suppliers. The report can be downloaded below.

This report deals with the urgent requirement for the UK to push ahead with the digital change of its capital markets. This is basic to the long term international competitiveness of the UK as a worldwide monetary centre, and to its capital markets important allowing role of providing the capital required to drive investment and sustainable development, underpinning the jobs, pensions, financial investments and savings of UK citizens.

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Optimizing Digital Transformation for British Success

Offered the basic role of FMIs to the overall financial market, rapid digitalisation would offer big capacity to open the growth of capital markets and the wider economy. While the UK has actually taken favorable actions to encourage a regulative environment that supports financial markets digitalisation, and momentum is developing for tokenisation, it is dragging markets such as France, Germany, Luxembourg, Hong Kong and Singapore when it comes to digital bond issuance.

The report sets out concrete actions for the government, regulators and market to take forward in the near and medium term to keep the UK's status as a world-leading worldwide monetary centre and support the federal government's development mission.

Perhaps the most exciting advancement is the growing acknowledgment that retail involvement is not an optional extra, however a necessity for vibrant, resistant markets. The brand-new framework enables innovations, in particular the launch of Access Bonds, which will allow specific financiers to buy bonds in denominations as small as 1.

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Will AI Tools Scale Mid-Market Growth?

At Barclays, we have long advocated for exactly this sort of modification using our combined experience as an advisor to corporates providing bonds, our function supporting the positioning of those issuances and our position as a company of retail investor services and wealth management advice and services. Our report, , highlighted how opening bond markets to individual savers can deepen liquidity, reinforce rate discovery, and help homes construct more diverse portfolios.

It is my belief that the reforms announced this week bring us much more detailed to that ambition.

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