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.
12 December 2023• Capital markets • Roundtable event • Petra Hielkema, chair of EIOPA
We are delighted to welcome Petra Hielkema, chair of EIOPA, the European insurance and pensions supervisor as our guest speaker to discuss some EIOPA’s key priorities for the year ahead, including: • The development of pensions and long-term capital in the EU • Closing the protection gap • Sustainability and climate change • Liquidity and […]
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6 December 2022• Diversity • Roundtable event
As the year draws to a close, this informal in person meeting is an opportunity to talk about what’s on the D&I mind and to hear from D&I peers from across the financial services industry, while enjoying a freshly prepared traditional high tea. The discussion will be held under the Chatham House rule to allow […]
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24 November 2022• Making a better case for capital markets • Virtual Event
Given current political events and the new government’s sense of urgency in reforming banking, finance, and markets in the UK, this workshop event for senior PR and comms professionals, will be an opportunity for the industry to discuss how to make a better case for value of what it does.
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2 November 2022• Diversity • Virtual Event
An informal discussion inviting attendees to share their experiences of setting up and running reverse mentoring initiatives in their organisations, and to hear from their peers. We plan to cover the context and positioning of the mentoring initiative, equipping both mentors and mentees to get the most out of the relationship, and measuring impact. The […]
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27 October 2022• Capital markets • Roundtable event • Dr Florian Toncar
The starting point for the discussion with guest speaker Dr Florian Toncar, Parliamentary State Secretary at the German Federal Ministry of Finance will be the Aktienrente (or ‘share pension’). The important proposed reforms to the German pensions system. No doubt we will also discuss the German perspective on CMU, sustainable finance, and German and EU capital […]
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19 October 2022• Capital markets • Virtual Event
A small and informal policy workshop to discuss the findings in our paper on ‘A reality check on Big Bang 2.0.’ The paper frames what we expect to be some of the main announcements in the government’s reform plans for banking and finance in the political context of the last few weeks. We’re hosting two virtual […]
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8 September 2022• Diversity • Virtual Event
Hosted in collaboration with HM Treasury, this webinar provides the opportunity to raise queries on the annual update submission process for the Women in Finance Charter.
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12 July 2022• Driving diversity • Fireside chat
In three short months UK Black History Month will begin, and many organisations will run events and initiatives to highlight Black history, arts and culture, and showcase Black excellence. But there is also an opportunity to leverage Black History Month to contribute to strategic diversity, equity and inclusion aims – for example, bringing leadership into […]
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6 July 2022• Driving diversity • Virtual event
The Corporate view on diversity and inclusion, is the third topic in our research series to build a Diversity Toolkit for Investors. The Toolkit project is a collaboration with the 30% Club Investor Group and sponsored by Columbia Threadneedle Investments, London Stock Exchange Group and S&P Global. At this event we will discuss what corporate reporting […]
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5 July 2022• Capital markets
An event to discuss our report: ‘A reality check on green finance’. The report drills down behind the headline numbers to analyse the growth in green finance in Europe, the sources and different types of green finance, and highlights some of the challenges ahead. We will present the headline findings from the report and discuss […]
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30 June 2022• Capital markets
At this private event, Marcel Haag, director of horizontal policies at DG FISMA will discuss the future of EU capital markets. In his role, Marcel oversees a range of initiatives that cut across all aspects of capital markets, including: capital markets union, sustainable finance, retail financial services, digital finance and technological innovation. The discussion will be […]
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23 June 2022• Driving diversity • Virtual event
In collaboration with HM Treasury, we will host a virtual event (date to be confirmed) to launch the fifth Annual Review, monitoring the progress of signatories to the HM Treasury Women in Finance Charter. In addition to presenting highlights of the review, we will hear from HM Treasury and industry leaders. Guest speakers include: John […]
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7 June 2022• Driving diversity • Virtual Event
This will be a small, focused virtual lunch meeting for New Financial members to share how they approach planning for Black History Month – how they strategise and prioritise different stakeholders, audiences, and content. Suitable for DEI leads, network leads, and anyone involved in the process of planning for Black History Month at their firm.
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26 May 2022• Unlocking capital markets • Private Breakfast • Juan Solé
We’re delighted to welcome Juan back for a third time, and he will also be discussing the IMF’s latest deep dive on the post-Covid and post-Brexit outlook for the UK financial system. This event will be an opportunity to discuss some of the key issues around financial stability from a policy, capital markets and macro […]
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25 May 2022• Driving diversity • Virtual Event
The Investor view on diversity and inclusion, is the second topic in our research series to build a Diversity Toolkit for Investors. The Toolkit project is a collaboration with the 30% Club Investor Group and sponsored by Columbia Threadneedle Investments, London Stock Exchange Group and S&P Global. At this event we will discuss how and […]
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17 May 2022• Capital markets • Private Breakfast • Edward Lucas
Edward is the likely next MP for the Cities of London & Westminster (he’s the LibDem candidate) and is a world expert on Ukraine, Russia and ‘Londongrad’. He is a columnist for The Times and former senior editor at The Economist. This is part of our big picture series and will be a fascinating discussion […]
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28 April 2022• Making a better case for capital markets • In Person and Virtual Event
This conference will be hosted with the Atlantic Council, one of the pre-eminent think tanks in the US, as the launch event for our joint report on the future of the UK financial sector. Details of the senior speakers from government, regulators and the industry will be published soon. The main themes of the report […]
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26 April 2022• Driving diversity • Virtual Event
At this event, we will hear from Carolanne Minashi, global head of inclusion at HSBC, speak about how HSBC set out to collect ethnicity data on a global basis, the benefits, challenges and key takeaways of such an approach, including Q&A with attendees.
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29 March 2022• Making a better case for capital markets • Virtual event
A workshop event to discuss the findings of our concept paper on ‘financial health checks’ as a way of engaging and empowering millions of individuals with their money. We think these health checks would help improve their financial well-being, financial resilience, and financial literacy – and to provide a long-term boost to the UK and […]
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23 March 2022• Driving diversity • Virtual event
Yasmine Chinwala, Partner at New Financial, will chair discussion of key DEI themes for the financial services industry with panellists: Regulation – Georgina Philippou, Senior Adviser on the Public Sector Equality Duty, Financial Conduct Authority, who will provide an update on the UK regulators’ diversity discussion paper and forthcoming consultation; Hybrid working – Syreeta Brown, […]
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10 March 2022• Unlocking capital markets • Private breakfast
A private in-person event to discuss the latest report from Pension Insurance Corporation ‘Investment Unleashed’ as part of the Purpose of Finance initiative. The report analyses the concrete benefits to the economy and to individuals of the potential increase in long-term investment that could be unlocked from the reform of Solvency II. This will be […]
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24 February 2022• Driving diversity • Virtual Event
This virtual event will be the first in our five-paper research series to build a Diversity Toolkit for Investors, in collaboration with the 30% Club and sponsored by London Stock Exchange Group and Columbia Threadneedle Investments. Speakers include: Iain Richards, Head of Global Responsible Investment Policy, Columbia Threadneedle Investments Birgit Neu, former global head of […]
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16 February 2022• Unlocking capital markets • Workshop
An informal workshop events to discuss the main findings of report ‘The growth potential in EU capital markets’.
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26 January 2022• Unlocking capital markets • Virtual Event
The starting point for this event discussion will be our upcoming paper with the Atlantic Council on ‘The future competitiveness of the UK’ that we are publishing at the end of March. The main themes in that paper will be: Rebooting domestic capital markets in the UK The international competitiveness of the UK market / […]
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20 January 2022• Driving diversity • Virtual Event
An event to discuss the big D&I themes for 2022, what’s top of the agenda and how will diversity and inclusion evolve in 2022?
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11 January 2022• Unlocking capital markets • Virtual Event
The 2022 New Financial event programme commences with the opportunity for different constituencies in the capital markets to share their views on the challenges and opportunities of reforming the process for capital raising by companies that are already listed on UK markets. We are delighted to host Mark Austin, a partner at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer […]
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8 December 2021• Sustainable business • Private Breakfast
This event is part of our ‘bigger picture’ series of events and will be a discussion of Azeem’s new book ‘Exponential: How Accelerating Technology Is Leaving Us Behind and What to Do About It’. We expect the discussion to be about the transformational challenges facing finance, business and society with guests including senior executives, people […]
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2 December 2021• Diversity • Virtual Event
As the year draws to a close, this informal meeting is an opportunity to talk about what is on your mind and hear from D&I peers from across the financial services industry. It will be held as a Zoom meeting under the Chatham House rule to allow for frank conversation, and we will invite all […]
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23 November 2021• Making a better case for capital markets • Private Breakfast
We look forward to hosting Bim Afolami, MP for Hitchin and Harpenden, and Chair of the APPG for financial markets and services, as our guest speaker as part of our ongoing ‘Meet the MP’ event series. Bim is a former corporate lawyer and banker, and is particularly active in parliament on the debate around financial […]
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17 November 2021• Diversity • Virtual Event
At this event we will present the highlights of our forthcoming research on how progressive firms from across the financial services sector are shifting to a hybrid model – a mixture of office and remote working – not just through the pandemic but permanently. We warmly welcome and thank our panellists: – James Bardrick, Head […]
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