British Financial Services Damaged by Slow Supervisors, Report Warns January 27, 2023 By Huw Jones Britain’s regulators can be slow, inefficient and unpredictable, raising costs and slowly damaging the financial sector’s global competitiveness, industry body...
UK Parliament Seeks Power to Scrutinize Financial Services Regulators January 25, 2023 By Katherine Griffiths Britain’s financial regulators would face more scrutiny over their policies for consumers and the economy from Parliament under proposals from...
UK Insurers Fear That Promised Brexit Capital Reforms Will Be Derailed January 23, 2023 By Katherine Griffiths Insurers loved the UK government’s long-awaited plans to free up billions of pounds of their capital. But after the celebrations...
UK Insurers, Banks Hope for Substantive Financial Services Reforms in 2023 December 22, 2022 By Katherine Griffiths After a jarring six months marked by sweeping policy promises, U-turns and four Chancellors of the Exchequer, UK financiers head...
UK Non-Bank Institutions (Such as Insurers) Face 1st Stress Test After Pensions Turmoil December 13, 2022 By Huw Jones and David Milliken Investment funds and other non-bank financial institutions face their first “stress test” next year to apply lessons from the near-meltdown...
UK’s Post-Brexit Financial Services Reforms Fall Short of Promised ‘Big Bang’ December 12, 2022 The UK set out a package of financial services reforms that cuts across dozens of areas but fell short of...
UK ‘Just Getting Started’ on Post-Brexit Boost to London’s Competitiveness: Minister December 1, 2022 By Huw Jones Britain is just at the beginning of post-Brexit efforts to keep London a top global financial center, but deregulation will...
UK Government Pushes Forward With Long-Awaited Insurer Reforms November 18, 2022 By Katherine Griffiths and William Shaw After years of fraught debate between regulators, insurers and the Treasury, Jeremy Hunt confirmed Thursday that the government would push...
UK Insurers Provide Test Case for Post-Brexit ‘Unshackling’ From EU Capital Rules November 17, 2022 By Huw Jones and Carolyn Cohn The British government and the Bank of England are reforming insurers’ capital rules, seen as a post-Brexit test of UK...
Bank of England Chief Questions Government Plan for Post-Brexit Financial Rules November 17, 2022 Bank of England Governor Andrew Bailey took the British government to task on Wednesday over its plan to give itself...