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Our Capital Markets Group focuses on guaranteeing the long-term competitiveness of the UK's public equity markets. Members are specialists from throughout the capital markets and noting environment and interested parties, with senior professionals from the buy side, offer side, intermediaries, and industry bodies. The group unites these voices to reflect the cross-industry nature of the monetary and associated professional services industry's role in this ecosystem.
Recognizing political, policy and regulative wins that can support the aspirations of the group. Advising and supporting broader TheCityUK activity to affect the policy and regulatory environment, the media environment, market individuals, and to drive action on reliable options. Ensuring that varied cross-industry perspectives are reflected in the group's outputs, and TheCityUK policy positions, outputs, and advocacy activities.
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The research study, carried out by EY, is based on detailed quantitative analysis and over 100 interviews and surveys of market participants: including company creators, leaders of pre-IPO companies, leaders of openly traded companies, financiers, consultants, investment managers, and infrastructure providers. The report can be downloaded below.
This report resolves the urgent requirement for the UK to press ahead with the digital transformation of its capital markets. This is basic to the long term global competitiveness of the UK as an international financial centre, and to its capital markets important making it possible for role of supplying the capital required to drive investment and sustainable growth, underpinning the jobs, pensions, investments and cost savings of UK people.
Offered the fundamental role of FMIs to the overall monetary industry, rapid digitalisation would provide huge potential to unlock the growth of capital markets and the larger economy. While the UK has taken favorable steps to motivate a regulatory environment that supports monetary markets digitalisation, and momentum is building for tokenisation, it is dragging 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 keep the UK's status as a world-leading global monetary centre and support the government's development mission.
Maybe the most amazing advancement is the growing acknowledgment that retail participation is not an optional extra, but a necessity for lively, resilient markets. The new structure enables innovations, in specific the launch of Access Bonds, which will enable specific investors to purchase bonds in denominations as little as 1.
At Barclays, we have long promoted for specifically this type of modification using our combined experience as an advisor to corporates issuing bonds, our function supporting the positioning of those issuances and our position as a supplier of retail financier services and wealth management advice and services. Our report, , highlighted how opening up bond markets to private savers can deepen liquidity, strengthen rate discovery, and assist households construct more varied portfolios.
Facilities for Development: Preparing for Rapid International ScalingIt is my belief that the reforms announced today bring us much better to that ambition.
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