Summary

The 14th annual edition of City Week will be held in-person in Central London, and also streamed live on our media channels, over two days between 20-21 May 2024. As in previous years, CW2024 is being organised in partnership with the UK Government, the City of London Corporation, TheCityUK, UK Finance and leading City institutions.

City Week brings together more than 1,000 top-level senior decision-makers from UK and overseas financial institutions for a comprehensive programme of cutting-edge presentations, panel discussions, social events and networking. Like previous editions, this year’s forum will feature many well-known names from the global financial services industry, the world of politics and the international regulatory community.

At the core of City Week are four separate summits (see below), which reflect the boardroom agenda of leading financial institutions from across the world.

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Investopia

Signing A Memorandum of Understanding with Investopia

In January, City Week’s CEO, Maurice Button, was delighted to sign a Memorandum of Understanding with Investopia the UAE Government’s think tank and global investment platform, in order to explore how the two can work together to their mutual benefit.

Given the complementary nature of the two platforms, there is significant opportunity to support each other’s activities. We are honoured to have entered into this MoU with Investopia.

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"We can really use generative AI to surface the most pertinent information to individuals as and when they need it"

I think the first phase very much as you're describing is certainly to do with efficiencies and I think because of some of the work that has happened in the past with NLP, I think there's a degree of comfort in terms of the role that generative AI can play from an efficiency standpoint. And I think for many organisations they have programs of work that are kind of well underway to be able to address some of that.

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Securities litigation

Prior to the Covid-19 crisis the UK was already seeing an uptick in claims brought by shareholders against companies and directors.

In particular, there have been a number of high-profile class actions brought by shareholders in UK publicly listed companies based on claims that the company and its directors made false and misleading statements to shareholders to induce them to invest in the company or to approve substantial transactions which did not bring the returns that were anticipated. The UK courts have accommodated the bringing of class actions (whether pursuant to a Group Litigation Order or otherwise) and there are now well-established

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