The UK and US finance ministries have announced the creation of a ‘Transatlantic Taskforce for Markets of the Future’ to ‘enhance collaboration on capital markets, digital assets and other innovative financial activities.’ The taskforce will be chaired by HM Treasury (HMT) and US Treasury officials and include representatives from UK and US regulators responsible for […]|
Financial services representatives have said they are yet to detect much regulatory ‘decongestion’ as the first-year anniversary approaches of the UK government’s publication of a ‘National Payments Vision’ to achieve precisely that. The National Payments Vision (‘NPV’) was published in November 2024 in response to the findings of an independent review published 12 months previously […]|
Sacha Zarb (UK), Peter Oakes (Ireland) and Dina Buse (Latvia) at Global Government Fintech Lab 2025.| www.globalgovernmentfintech.com
One of the UK’s biggest banks has created a new senior role to ‘deepen engagement with the UK government and government-linked institutions in the UK and beyond’ – and recruited a former JP Morgan banker from a UK government job to fill it. Toby Lott has joined Lloyds Banking Group as managing director – governments, […]|
Switzerland’s government has announced that an office set up to promote fintech innovation two years ago as a new unit ‘administratively attached to’ its State Secretariat for International Finance (SIF) is to be, in effect, taken in-house.| www.globalgovernmentfintech.com
How can energy policy encourage retrofit of domestic buildings? By getting emotional, says Yekatherina Bobrova.| CREDS
