Upcoming Conferences
City & Financial Global is pleased to announce the 10th edition of its annual Cyber Security in Financial Services Summit event taking place on 16th September 2024. The purpose of the Summit is to look at the cyber risks, wherever they originate, which pose a threat to London and the financial services community and will provide a forum for Government bodies, regulators, law enforcers and financial institutions to examine the latest threats and how to combat them.
Recent years have witnessed exceptional growth and technical progress in the offshore wind energy market within the UK and Europe. Both have consistently channelled significant investment into offshore wind projects, reinforcing their position as global industry leaders. With a diverse range of operational and planned offshore wind farms, coupled with ongoing technological innovations, cost efficiency improvements, and a growing commitment to sustainability, the UK and Europe have emerged as central players in the global shift towards cleaner and more sustainable energy sources.
If 2023 was the year that we moved from disclosing climate risks to tackling them, 2024 is the year when we work out how to finance the process. Transition finance – broadly defined as financing corporate decarbonisation, with a particular emphasis on hard-to-abate sectors – has come of age and is likely to be the dominant theme at COP 29 and at other international gatherings for the rest of this year. Here in the UK, the Government has set up the Transition Finance Market Review to examine what the UK financial and professional services ecosystem needs to do to become the leading global centre for transition finance. This would bring very significant opportunities for financial and professional services firms.
City & Financial Global is delighted to announce the return of its highly regarded M&A Summit, taking place on 21 October. The last two post-COVID years have led to a pent-up demand for deal activity which was thwarted by uncertain economic conditions, rising inflation and higher interest rates. But has all that now changed? M&A involving a UK target is 84 per cent higher this year than it was during the same period in 2023, with the UK public to private market particularly active. Interest rates have stabilised, inflation is falling, and less volatile markets make it easier for dealmakers to price deals and plan ahead.
City and Financial Global is pleased to announce the next edition of Data and the Future of Financial Services Summit, which will take place in Central London on 22 October 2024. This high-profile conference builds on the success of our well-established Digital, Technology and Data Events portfolio, which have become “must attend” summits for senior decision-makers in the UK financial services industry and beyond.
The Tokenisation Summit will analyse the economics and use cases of tokenisation from the perspective of the traditional markets. The key questions are which problems can tokenisation help to solve, how can it be integrated and how do you scale it? The agenda is divided into (1) assets (funds and securities) tokenisation and (2) money (CBDC, stablecoins, tokenised deposits and collateral) tokenisation.