Strategic Review of UK Global Markets

Our Capital Markets Group concentrates on guaranteeing the long-lasting competitiveness of the UK's public equity markets. Members are specialists from throughout the capital markets and listing ecosystem and interested celebrations, 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 related professional services industry's role in this ecosystem.

Determining political, policy and regulatory wins that can support the ambitions of the group. Encouraging and supporting larger TheCityUK activity to affect the policy and regulative environment, the media environment, market participants, and to drive action on efficient solutions. 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, conducted by EY, is based upon detailed quantitative analysis and over 100 interviews and studies of market participants: consisting of business founders, leaders of pre-IPO business, leaders of openly traded companies, financiers, advisers, investment managers, and infrastructure service providers. The report can be downloaded listed below.

This report resolves the immediate need for the UK to push ahead with the digital transformation of its capital markets. This is basic to the long term international competitiveness of the UK as an international monetary centre, and to its capital markets essential allowing function of providing the capital needed to drive investment and sustainable growth, underpinning the jobs, pensions, investments and cost savings of UK citizens.

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Provided the essential role of FMIs to the total financial market, rapid digitalisation would use big capacity to open the growth of capital markets and the wider economy. While the UK has 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 comes to digital bond issuance.

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

Maybe the most amazing development is the growing recognition that retail participation is not an optional additional, but a need for vibrant, resistant markets. The new framework enables developments, in specific the launch of Access Bonds, which will enable private investors to purchase bonds in denominations as little as 1.

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At Barclays, we have long promoted for specifically this type of change using our combined experience as a consultant to corporates releasing bonds, our function supporting the placement of those issuances and our position as a provider of retail investor services and wealth management guidance and services. Our report, , highlighted how opening bond markets to private savers can deepen liquidity, strengthen price discovery, and help households develop more varied portfolios.

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

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