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Our Capital Markets Group concentrates on guaranteeing the long-term competitiveness of the UK's public equity markets. Members are specialists from throughout the capital markets and listing community and interested parties, with senior practitioners from the buy side, sell side, intermediaries, and industry bodies. The group combines these voices to reflect the cross-industry nature of the financial and associated expert services market's role in this community.
Determining political, policy and regulatory wins that can support the ambitions of the group. Advising and supporting broader TheCityUK activity to affect the policy and regulatory environment, the media environment, market participants, and to drive action on reliable 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 on in-depth quantitative analysis and over 100 interviews and studies of market participants: including business founders, leaders of pre-IPO business, leaders of publicly traded companies, investors, advisors, financial investment managers, and facilities providers. The report can be downloaded below.
This report resolves the urgent requirement for the UK to press ahead with the digital improvement of its capital markets. This is basic to the long term global competitiveness of the UK as a global financial centre, and to its capital markets essential making it possible for function of supplying the capital required to drive investment and sustainable development, underpinning the jobs, pensions, financial investments and savings of UK citizens.
Offered the basic function of FMIs to the overall monetary market, quick digitalisation would provide big capacity to unlock the development of capital markets and the broader economy. While the UK has actually taken positive steps to motivate a regulatory environment that supports monetary markets digitalisation, and momentum is developing for tokenisation, it is lagging behind markets such as France, Germany, Luxembourg, Hong Kong and Singapore when it concerns digital bond issuance.
The report sets out concrete actions for the government, regulators and industry to take forward in the near and medium term to preserve the UK's status as a world-leading worldwide financial centre and support the federal government's growth mission.
Perhaps the most interesting development is the growing acknowledgment that retail involvement is not an optional additional, however a need for lively, resilient markets. The new structure allows developments, in specific the launch of Access Bonds, which will enable private investors to buy bonds in denominations as little as 1.
At Barclays, we have long advocated for precisely this sort of change using our combined experience as an advisor to corporates issuing bonds, our function supporting the positioning of those issuances and our position as a service provider of retail investor options and wealth management guidance and services. Our report, , highlighted how opening bond markets to individual savers can deepen liquidity, reinforce price discovery, and help households develop more diverse portfolios.
Unlocking Green Capital: Sustainable Funding Patterns for 2026It is my belief that the reforms announced this week bring us much more detailed to that ambition.
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