March 9, 2023
Britain’s revamped financial market rules will largely be aligned with U.S. and European Union regulations to minimize disruption to global companies, its financial services minister Andrew Griffith said on Thursday. Britain left the EU in 2020 and has since proposed …
March 7, 2023
The governor of the Bank of England has told lawmakers that the UK government’s plans to reform insurance capital rules increases the annual risk of a failure in the life insurance sector by around 20%. The likelihood of a failure …
March 2, 2023
Britain will seek to reset relations between the City of London and the European Union on Thursday, saying it will stick to high standards in finance and not do anything to undermine financial stability in the bloc in the wake …
February 21, 2023
The Bank of England sought on Monday to allay fears among insurers that it was dragging its feet over a long-trailed and disputed reform of their capital rules, saying a “very good sense” of the changes would emerge well before …
February 10, 2023
The UK government is in talks to speed the implementation of a flagship insurance reform to release £100 billion ($121 billion) of capital for investment, after months of clashes over the plans and frustration about the slow pace of change. …
January 27, 2023
Britain’s regulators can be slow, inefficient and unpredictable, raising costs and slowly damaging the financial sector’s global competitiveness, industry body TheCityUK said in a report. Complex, opaque and slow authorizations, such as for a new chief executive or a new …
January 25, 2023
Britain’s financial regulators would face more scrutiny over their policies for consumers and the economy from Parliament under proposals from members of the House of Lords. A new independent body could track progress against certain metrics, with elected officials also …
January 23, 2023
Insurers loved the UK government’s long-awaited plans to free up billions of pounds of their capital. But after the celebrations have come fears that regulators could nudge the changes in a more cautious direction. Reforms to City of London rules, …
January 12, 2023
An increasing number of the UK’s financial services firms expect a rise in loan defaults in the next three months, the latest reminder of a gloomy economic outlook. A balance of 23% of respondents to the CBI/PwC Financial Services Survey …
January 10, 2023
UK finance firms now have a higher proportion of women on their boards than their European counterparts, a rare boost for the City of London’s attempts to improve the industry’s diversity. Women made up 58% of new board appointments at …