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.

Recordings now available

Featuring insights from leading experts across various fields, our recordings provide valuable knowledge and convenient access to a wide range of topics.

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The Climate Change and Natural Capital Leaders Summit
The International Capital Markets Leaders Summit
The AI in Financial Services Leaders Summit
The Tokenisation and Digital Assets Leaders Summit

London Stock Exchange plc

"Fundamentally you don't create consequential public companies unless you credit consequential private companies"

If you look at our context, we're the sixth largest economy in the world. But as of the beginning of May, we were the third largest capital market by capital raised year to date so we're actually punching considerably above our weight. And the only two economies above us were the US and India. And so, I think that we need to recognise and level set that. But the Capital Markets Industry Task Force was created in part because I think over many years we have built up a series of different pieces of regulation that have operated in isolation, rather than working together

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Travers Smith

The Law Commission's
approach to digital assets
as property: the devil is in
the detail

In February 2024, the Law Commission published – by way of a short consultation – its draft Property
(Digital Assets etc) Bill (the Bill).
The Bill is the product of important and extensive work undertaken by the Law Commission on the status
and nature of digital assets as "property", including its final report on digital assets (published in June
2023). Clause 1 of the Bill is the central provision, and is set out below. Establishing legal certainty around
the treatment of digital assets as "property" will pave the way for the increased issuance, trading,
clearing and settlement of such assets in the financial market and support their use as collateral.

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Travers Smith

The FCA and Bank of England's "strategic approach"

On 22 April 2024, the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) and the Bank of England (including the Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA), together the Bank) published updates on their approach to artificial intelligence (AI). The FCA's update is available here and the Bank's update is available here.

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