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

Identifying political, policy and regulative wins that can support the ambitions of the group. Encouraging and supporting larger TheCityUK activity to influence the policy and regulative environment, the media environment, market participants, and to drive action on efficient options. Making sure 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, conducted by EY, is based on detailed quantitative analysis and over 100 interviews and studies of market individuals: consisting of company creators, leaders of pre-IPO companies, leaders of publicly traded companies, financiers, advisors, financial investment managers, and infrastructure providers. The report can be downloaded below.

This report resolves the urgent requirement for the UK to push ahead with the digital transformation of its capital markets. This is essential to the long term international competitiveness of the UK as a global financial centre, and to its capital markets essential enabling role of supplying the capital needed to drive investment and sustainable growth, underpinning the tasks, pensions, investments and cost savings of UK residents.

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Given the basic function of FMIs to the total financial market, quick digitalisation would provide substantial capacity to open the growth of capital markets and the larger economy. While the UK has actually taken positive steps to motivate a regulatory environment that supports monetary markets digitalisation, and momentum is building for tokenisation, it is lagging behind markets such as France, Germany, Luxembourg, Hong Kong and Singapore when it comes to digital bond issuance.

The report sets out concrete actions for the 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 development objective.

Perhaps the most exciting development is the growing acknowledgment that retail participation is not an optional extra, however a need for vibrant, resistant markets. The new framework enables innovations, in particular the launch of Access Bonds, which will allow specific investors to buy bonds in denominations as little as 1.

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At Barclays, we have long promoted for precisely this sort of change using our combined experience as a consultant to corporates releasing bonds, our role supporting the placement of those issuances and our position as a provider of retail financier options and wealth management guidance and services. Our report, , highlighted how opening bond markets to specific savers can deepen liquidity, strengthen cost discovery, and assist homes develop more diverse portfolios.

It is my belief that the reforms revealed today bring us much better to that aspiration.

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Building Resilient Trade Chains for 2026

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