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...
UK Government in Advanced Talks With Regulators on Insurance Capital Reforms November 16, 2022 By Katherine Griffiths The UK government is close to an agreement with regulators over insurance capital reforms intended to release billions of pounds...
UK Government Rushes to Outline Proposed Power to Overrule Financial Regulators November 14, 2022 By Katherine Griffiths The UK government is rushing to outline a proposed power to overrule the City of London’s financial regulators, as it...
Financial Services Executives Toast City of London’s Prospects Under PM Sunak October 31, 2022 By Katherine Griffiths and Joe Mayes When senior figures from the City of London gathered for a dinner in July at the historic Mansion House, they...