#CityWeek

“Towards a New Era of Innovation and Competitiveness”

City Week Highlights

This year’s event will also look at a number of other important change drivers within the industry. Fintech has come to the fore over the last year, producing potentially game-changing new business models that threaten incumbent financial institutions. The implementation of the final parts of the G20 reforms will also continue to have a profound impact on firms and their customers, sometimes with unforeseen, adverse consequences, such as the current problem of illiquidity in the bond markets.  

More broadly, while financial institutions have done much to restore their social licence and their relationship with society, more still needs to be done to embed appropriate cultures and standards of personal behaviour in order to rebuild trust to pre-crisis levels.

Against this backdrop, City Week 2016 will address:

• The UK’s financial services strategy in a changing world
• Implications of diverging monetary policy across the globe
• G20 plans for greening the financial system
• Impact of BREXIT on London as a financial centre and on the European Union
• Where next for the BRICS?
• How well do the pieces of the global post-financial crisis regulatory settlement fit together?
• Culture and conduct: towards personal regulatory responsibility
• MiFID II: preparing for the new world of securities trading
• Fintech innovation: potential for changing current business models
• Moving to a decentralised financial infrastructure via blockchain technology
• Harvesting the benefits of big data to improve profitability
• Cyber security – the biggest challenge for financial institutions
• China’s switch to green finance to underpin sustainable development – opportunities for foreign financial institutions
• Financing Prime Minister Modi’s infrastructure plans in India
• Realising Africa’s investment potential
• Identifying the high growth economies of tomorrow

Over the course of City Week 2016, a highly eminent faculty of international speakers will explore these crucial themes, including their economic and market impact.

Attendance is by invitation only and is free of charge for all C-suite executives.

The Board of Patrons for City Week 2016 includes the following distinguished individuals:

• Rodney Baker-Bates, Chairman, Willis Ltd 
• Sir Win Bischoff, Chairman, JP Morgan Securities Plc.; Chairman, Financial Reporting Council
• Lord Norman Blackwell, Chairman, Lloyds Banking Group 
• Elizabeth Corley, Global Chief Executive Officer, Allianz Global Investors
• Katherine Garrett-Cox, Chief Executive, Alliance Trust plc
• Paul Manduca, Chairman, Prudential plc.
• Helena Morrissey, CEO, Newton
• John Nelson, Chairman, Lloyd’s of London
• Xavier Rolet, Chief Executive, London Stock Exchange Group
  
• Clare Woodman, Chief Operating Officer, Morgan Stanley