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Our Capital Markets Group focuses on guaranteeing the long-term competitiveness of the UK's public equity markets. Members are experts from throughout the capital markets and noting environment and interested celebrations, with senior professionals from the buy side, offer side, intermediaries, and market bodies. The group unites these voices to show the cross-industry nature of the monetary and related expert services market's function in this environment.

Recognizing political, policy and regulative wins that can support the aspirations of the group. Recommending and supporting larger TheCityUK activity to affect the policy and regulatory environment, the media environment, market participants, and to drive action on effective services. Making sure that diverse cross-industry perspectives are reflected in the group's outputs, and TheCityUK policy positions, outputs, and advocacy activities.

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The research, carried out by EY, is based upon in-depth quantitative analysis and over 100 interviews and surveys of market participants: including business creators, leaders of pre-IPO business, leaders of publicly traded companies, financiers, consultants, investment managers, and facilities providers. The report can be downloaded listed below.

This report attends to the immediate need for the UK to push ahead with the digital transformation of its capital markets. This is basic to the long term global competitiveness of the UK as a worldwide financial centre, and to its capital markets vital making it possible for role of supplying the capital required to drive investment and sustainable growth, underpinning the tasks, pensions, financial investments and cost savings of UK people.

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Provided the fundamental function of FMIs to the overall monetary market, quick digitalisation would offer substantial potential to open the development of capital markets and the broader economy. While the UK has taken positive actions to encourage a regulative 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 pertains to digital bond issuance.

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

Perhaps the most exciting development is the growing recognition that retail involvement is not an optional extra, but a need for lively, resilient markets. The new structure enables innovations, in particular the launch of Gain access to Bonds, which will allow private investors to purchase bonds in denominations as little as 1.

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At Barclays, we have actually long promoted for precisely this type of change using our combined experience as an advisor to corporates providing bonds, our function supporting the positioning of those issuances and our position as a company of retail investor solutions and wealth management suggestions and services. Our report, , highlighted how opening bond markets to specific savers can deepen liquidity, reinforce cost discovery, and assist homes build more varied portfolios.

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

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