The financial sector is central to the UK economy – so while fears linger over its underlying strength, Labour is unlikely to give it the tougher treatment some experts recommend.
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The government and Financial Conduct Authority are at loggerheads over proposals to name and shame financial firms under investigation.
The general public may want tighter crypto regulations but is the UK government listening?
Writers at the time were much more concerned with the fire’s destructive power than describing how it started in any detail.
Business bosses appear reluctant to take part in open debate about their firms’ contribution to growing regional inequalities.
Sexism and misogyny still rears its head in everyday interactions in the financial services industry, not just in the scandals that hit the headlines.
British banks moved to Canary Wharf in search of space and modern facilities but hybrid working needs could drive banks back to the City of London’s smaller spaces.
UK inflation has been stubbornly high and interest rate hikes have not yet brought it in line with other advanced economies.
My research suggests City firms’ efforts to deliver more equal representation at the top have not worked because they were never meant to.
The government wants to make UK finance more competitive after the damage caused by Brexit.
Behind the government’s net zero bluster there has been little progress in decarbonising the UK.
Bevis Marks – the cathedral synagogue of British Jewry – is one of the few remaining traces of the historic Jewish presence in the City of London. As a national heritage site, it has no parallels.
The question now is, how to turn a crisis into an opportunity.
The UK’s financial services sector has been planning for a considerably reduced market access.
A no-deal Brexit means the immediate imposition of import duties and various controls on UK-EU trade.
Some banks are moving their operations out of London. Others are moving in to serve British clients they might not be able to reach from the EU.
There are early indicators that London’s fortunes could be shifting.
The EU has ruled out any cherry picking from the UK for things like single market access for financial services.
The Conservatives may be willing to sacrifice what’s left of the UK’s beleaguered social model to maintain the City’s global status.
The one audience that was prepared for a hard Brexit, it seems, was the City of London.
Top contributors
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Senior Lecturer in Law, University of Westminster
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Senior Lecturer in Sociology of Work, Queen Mary University of London
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Professor of Organisation Studies, University of Birmingham
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Professor of Public Policy, King's College London
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Lecturer in Politics and International Studies, University of Cambridge
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Professor in Business History, Henley Business School, University of Reading
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Blavatnik Professor of Government and Public Policy, University of Oxford
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Professor of Modern European History, University of Oxford
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Senior Research Associate in Environmental Governance, Lancaster University
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Senior Lecturer in Economics, The Open University
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Reader of Commercial Law, Queen's University Belfast
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Professor of International Business History, University of Reading
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Professor of Banking, Bangor University
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Professor of Banking & Applied Economics, University of Stirling
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Vice Dean and Associate Professor in Economics, University of East London
