At the heart of New Financial is a managed programme of private dinners, briefings and workshops. We provide a private forum for senior individuals with different perspectives from across the industry – investors, issuers, banks, and government – to work together to address common challenges.
25 November 2020• Brexit • Virtual Event
With less than two months to go until the UK officially leaves the transition period, this event will focus on the options ahead for the UK on the other side of Brexit. In our report we included a ‘playbook’ of 25 recommendations in four key areas on how the UK can respond to Brexit, including: […]
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10 November 2020• Rebuilding trust • Virtual Event
We think pay and bonuses for 2020 across the industry will be trickier than ever to calculate and could cause significant problems for the industry from a political and PR perspective. This event series involves three separate workshops that will focus on the HR perspective, the political perspective, and the PR & comms perspective. Our […]
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3 November 2020• Driving diversity • Virtual Event
Recent events have renewed focus on gathering diversity data points that require self-reporting. We have heard repeatedly from members that a data refresh is a priority action point. At this event, we will hear from a couple of organisations (including Emma Holden, global head of HR at Schroders) that are in the throes of developing […]
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22 October 2020• Diversity • Virtual Event
We know from our work as HM Treasury’s data partner on the Women in Finance Charter that linking diversity targets to pay is the most controversial and the most secretive of the four Charter principles. This session explores how financial services companies are bringing diversity and culture criteria into how staff get paid, and how […]
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14 October 2020 • Virtual Event • Dr Jörg Kukies
New Financial is delighted to host guest speaker Dr Jörg Kukies, State Secretary in the German Finance Ministry, to discuss ‘Developments in Banking and Capital markets union – a perspective from the German Council presidency’. Dr Kukies is responsible for financial markets policy and European policy at the Federal Ministry of Finance – and Germany […]
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30 September 2020• Capital markets • Virtual Event
We’re delighted to be joined by Nicolas Véron, visiting fellow at Bruegel and a senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics in Washington to discuss our latest report. Nicolas is extraordinarily-well plugged in to both EU and US policy circles and will be sharing his unique insights and perspective on all things capital […]
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17 September 2020• Driving diversity • Virtual event
At this event in collaboration with Refinitiv, we will launch our latest research looking at how the Covid crisis is catalysing a step change in diversity and inclusion across the financial services industry. We will present the highlights of our findings, followed by a high-level panel discussion with: David Craig, CEO, Refinitiv Birgit Neu, Global […]
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7 September 2020• Capital markets • Virtual event
CMU is one of our favourite topics at New Financial and is a core part of our work. The event comes a few weeks before the Commission is expected to publish its latest action plan for the next phase of CMU. The HLF published an excellent report in June with more than 30 recommendations in […]
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14 July 2014 • Virtual event
The discussion The Covid crisis, capital markets & the UK economy will be based on our recent report in collaboration with BNP Paribas on The value of capital markets to the UK economy that analyses the importance of capital markets to UK companies and the central role they play in supporting the wider UK economy […]
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23 June 2020• Diversity
HM Treasury in collaboration with New Financial present the launch event of the third Annual Review of the HM Treasury Women in Finance Charter, hosted by the City of London Corporation. This is an opportunity to gain insight into the progress of Charter signatories, celebrate successes, discuss best practice around the principles of the Charter, […]
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18 June 2020• Brexit • Virtual event
For all the focus on coronavirus in the past few months, Brexit has not – of course – gone away. As things stand the UK financial services industry is hurtling towards leaving the transition period at the end of this year with a pretty thin deal. Some of the topics we are likely to discuss during our […]
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11 June 2020• Policy • Virtual event
‘The Great Reversal – how America gave up on free markets’: breakfast with Thomas Philippon, a French economist at NYU Stern, to discuss his recent book on the shifts in competition and capitalism in the US over the past 50 years.
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May 2020• Capital markets • Virtual event
How the industry responds to the Covid crisis and how it behaves in the next few weeks and months will define its relationship with government and society for the next decade. *But* it will be vital in the coming months that the industry demonstrates a clear sense of purpose and avoids the mistakes and behaviours that […]
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12 May 2020• Driving diversity • Virtual event
Guest speakers Terecina KWONG, Chief Operating Officer, and Marina Tong, Head of Operations, at HSBC China will share their experience of the Covid crisis from the front line of the bank’s D&I response in China. We will discuss the challenges they have faced and overcome (and are still in the middle of) as well as […]
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28 April 2020• Capital markets • Virtual event
Senior dinner with (Lord) David Willetts to discuss the punchy new edition of the former Cabinet minister’s book ‘The Pinch: how the baby boomers stole their children’s future – and why they should give it back’ with a particular focus on how the financial services industry can help address this challenge.
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April • Driving diversity • Virtual event
The industry will need to take a close look at what and how it delivers value to broader stakeholders, including employees and the communities in which they operate, adding weight to the existing direction of travel of government, regulators and shareholders towards increasing their focus on ESG, including D&I. This four part virtual event series […]
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17 March 2020 • Private dinner
The dinner comes as we approach the business end of the process to select the Democratic Party presidential candidate: by 17th March more than half of US states will have held their primaries representing nearly two thirds of the delegates who will select the Democratic candidate. We should by then have a much clearer idea […]
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4 March 2020• Diversity • Private breakfast
Companies consist of people and products, yet few firms apply even a fraction of the methodical diligence to their people decisions as they do to developing, launching and maintaining their products and services. People decisions – even the most important ones – often boil down to an individual and their gut instinct. In our forthcoming […]
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27 February 2020• Capital markets • Private breakfast
The breakfast is the latest in the Purpose of Finance initiative on which we are collaborating with Pension Insurance Corporation. We hosted a very successful dinner in October 2019 to discuss a working draft of the paper (I’ve attached a summary of that discussion). This breakfast will focus on concrete and practical recommendations to address […]
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11 February 2020• Diversity • Private breakfast
Over the past six months, the Bank of England has really cranked up its public discourse on the topic of diversity and why it is important to financial services. In a blog post from earlier this year, the Bank’s Governor Mark Carney said: “We value diversity for at least three reasons. First, a public institution […]
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6 February 2020• Policy • Private breakfast
A private breakfast to discuss ‘In light of Brexit, what can the UK do right now to make the framework for business & financial services as competitive as possible?’ This breakfast will effectively be a brainstorming exercise to feed into a big report we are publishing in a few months on the future of UK […]
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30 January 2020• Capital markets • Private breakfast
The breakfast follows on from our report last month on The Crisis of Capitalism which pulled together in one place why so many people are so angry with capitalism, bankers, big business and the elite, and what we can do about it. Few sectors of the economy have been blamed more for fuelling popular anger […]
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16 January 2020• Radical actions • Private breakfast
At this breakfast roundtable we will discuss our forthcoming thought paper exploring the different ways organisations are changing how they frame the business case, including broadening their understanding of how diversity drives innovation, minimises group think and reduces reputational risk; how different business areas are increasingly involved in delivering diversity; how the business case needs […]
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14 January 2020• Capital markets • Private dinner • Richard Knox
With the clock ticking down to Brexit on 31st January, the this dinner will address some of the key questions facing the banking and finance industry in the coming months and years, including: The future of global capital markets and the UK’s potential role The future relationship between the UK and the EU in financial […]
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5 December 2019• Driving diversity • Private breakfast • Claire Cole
Social mobility is a top three diversity priority for the FCA. This breakfast is an opportunity to hear from Clare Cole, head of department – primary market oversight and FCA social mobility champion about why and how the regulator is approaching this diversity theme and what they have learned.
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4 December 2019• Brexit • Private breakfast • Sir Simon Fraser
A private breakfast with Sir Simon Fraser, managing partner of Flint Global and former head of the Foreign & Commonwealth Office, as part of our series on the future of UK trade and influence in the wake of Brexit.
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13 November 2019• Brexit • Private dinner • Robert Ophèle
A private dinner with Robert Ophèle, President of the French regulator the Autorité des Marchés Financiers to discuss ‘The future of EU capital markets post-Brexit’. Some of the key topics for discussion will include: The headline French perspective on Brexit from a financial services perspective Brexit relocations and the future of financial centres in the EU […]
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5 November 2019• Driving diversity • Private breakfast
The financial services industry is all about numbers, yet few firms apply even a fraction of the analytic rigour to their people data compared to their product and market data. In this second event in ourRadical Actions series of ideas we think could radically shift diversity outcomes, we discuss our forthcoming thought paper on why […]
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21 October 2019• Brexit • Private dinner • Alexandre Fasel
Few countries are as closely bound the to the EU without being part of it as Switzerland. Since Ambassador Fasel spoke at a New Financial dinner last year, the Brexit quagmire has deepened and tensions in Switzerland’s own relationship with the EU have increased and spilled over into the withdrawal of equivalence for Swiss stock […]
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16 October 2019• The Purpose of Finance • Private dinner
The dinner is the latest in the Purpose of Finance initiative on which we are collaborating with Pension Insurance Corporation, and the discussion will focus on a working draft of an upcoming research paper that explores the concrete impact on the real economy – mainly in the form of reduced productivity growth – of short-termism […]
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