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.
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
New Financial had the pleasure of hosting Sébastien Raspiller, head of the financial sector department at the French Treasury for a breakfast on capital markets union in October 2019. We are excited to welcome him back for this event to discuss ‘The future of EU capital markets post-Brexit,’ ahead of the French Presidency of the […]
The pandemic has changed the nature and function of the workplace, employees attitudes and preferences to how they work. Financial services firms have a huge challenge ahead grappling with the future of work. Overhauling the Monday to Friday, 9am-5pm default with a more flexible model could contribute to overcoming key barriers to diversity through an […]
Pat McFadden has been the MP for Wolverhampton South East since 2005 and was appointed Shadow Economic Secretary to the Treasury by Keir Starmer in April 2020. This event is just ahead of the Labour Party conference and will focus on Labour’s perspective on the City. We’ll be discussing a wide range of topics including: […]
The launch event for our annual benchmark report on the size, depth, and growth potential of EU capital markets this year will focus on the future of EU capital markets in the context of ‘strategic autonomy’. We are also pleased to be joined by Anthony Attia, Global head of primary markets & post-trade at Euronext, […]
In July, the Financial Conduct Authority, Prudential Regulation Authority and the Bank of England jointly published a discussion paper Diversity and inclusion in the financial sector – working together to drive change on potential rules and guidance for all regulated firms on D&I issues, and how they could use their regulatory powers to act if firms […]
New Financial in collaboration with HM Treasury will be hosting an online workshop on 8th September, open to all signatories to help answer queries for companies filling out their annual update submissions for the HM Treasury Women in Finance Charter.
Our latest event ‘The future of European stock exchanges’ aims to progress the debate initially raised in our recent report on ‘The problem with European stock markets’. We will be joined by guest speakers including Robert Barnes, head of primary markets at LSEG plc & CEO at Turquoise, Fredrik Ekström, head of Nasdaq Stockholm, European […]
The launch event for the five-year review of the HM Treasury Women in Finance Charter celebrates and discusses the impact of the Charter on signatory firms, the financial services industry and beyond as well as looks to the future. At this event, we will hear from guest speakers John Glen MP, the Economic Secretary to […]
Isabel Benjumea was elected as an MEP for the European People’s Party in May 2019. She is Vice-Chair of the Committee on Regional Development and a member of the ECON Committee. She was the rapporteur for the ECON Committee on its own report on CMU, published in September last year. She previously worked at the […]
Gareth Davies is the MP for Grantham and Stamford and was recently appointed to the Finance Select Committee. He was first elected in 2019 and before his political career, he worked at Columbia Threadneedle Investments, most recently as global head of responsible investment. In Parliament, Gareth has been very involved in debates on the future […]
Many barriers to diversity are based on assumptions of what clients want or need. We think that the Covid crisis provides the perfect opportunity to rethink what clients really want. The other side of this discussion is the fact that all financial services firms are effectively each other’s clients in some form. Can the industry […]
During this event we will discuss the findings of New Financial’s research, Accelerating Black Inclusion. The research aims to capture the experiences of Black people we are hearing right now with a particular focus on senior Black leaders across the UK finance sector. From these individual accounts, we will draw out themes to better understand […]
The Long Term Stock Exchange is trying to revolutionise public equity markets in the US by encouraging firms and investors to take a longer-term perspective. Last year it (finally) received SEC approval. This event is an opportunity to share what the LTSE is trying to achieve; the obstacles and challenges it faces; and the potential […]
The Netherlands has the largest and deepest investor market in Europe and is leading the way in the EU’s efforts to boost retail participation across Europe – one of the key elements of the latest capital markets union action plan. This event will address the challenges of increasing retail investment from a policy, supervisory and […]
New Financial is delighted to host a series of virtual roundtables with Lord Hill to discuss and feed into the UK Listings Review. Tuesday 19th January – The asset management/ investor perspective Wednesday 20th January – The investment bank/ broker perspective Topics for discussion will include: Exploring the different perspectives on how to unlock more […]
The pandemic has led to a rethink of diversity data across multiple areas – including disability. At this session we will discuss what more granular self-reporting around the breath of what might be included under the umbrella of “disability” might look like, in order to help organisations more accurately identify where more positive action may […]
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: […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]