Upcoming Conferences
City & Financial Global is delighted to announce the next edition of its highly regarded annual M&A Summit taking place on 16 November. As confidence returns to the UK dealmaking market, 2027 is expected to mark the next phase of growth for mergers and acquisitions, with increasing transaction values, renewed cross-border investment and heightened activity across sectors including financial services, technology, infrastructure and energy.
Now in its 4th edition, this summit has established itself as the definitive global forum for digital asset infrastructure. The theme of the next edition, which will take place in London on 26 January 2027, is ‘The Digital Financial System: From Pilots to Full Implementation’, reflecting the industry’s decisive shift toward real-world institutional scale and operational maturity. TOK27 will convene an exclusive gathering of senior policymakers, institutional investors, and global financial leaders to examine how tokenisation is radically transforming the international capital markets.
Physical climate risk can no longer be treated as a future concern. Following another year of extreme climate events and growing disruption to assets, infrastructure and supply chains, the financial materiality of climate hazards is no longer a theoretical projection, it is an increasingly immediate business reality.
The UK’s transition to a cleaner, more electrified economy is creating one of Europe’s most significant infrastructure investment opportunities. Delivering the Government’s Clean Power 2030 ambitions, and meeting rising demand from data centres, industry, transport and heating, will require network companies to invest £70–80 billion between 2026 and 2030, with a further £89 billion potentially required in the 2030s.
The market is being rebuilt around it, and the Government has recently made some significant announcements. First, Great British Grid — a publicly owned body within Great British Energy, deploying up to £4 billion and co-investing alongside private capital — opens a new phase of public–private partnership. Second, the Government will expand self-build connections; and the CATO, iTO, cap-and-floor and Regulated Asset Base regimes are creating investable structures that did not exist a few years ago.
The next edition of City & Financial Global’s annual Payments Regulation and Innovation Summit, taking place on 11 February, could not come at a more opportune time. Regulatory reform, the evolution of open banking and open finance, the growth of stablecoins and tokenisation, new approaches to fraud prevention, and rapid advances in AI and digital payments are reshaping the market.
We are pleased to announce the 11th edition of our Data, AI and the Future of Financial Services Summit 2027, the premier gathering for financial leaders navigating the intersection of “smart data”, rapid artificial intelligence adoption, shifting regulatory frameworks, and escalating cyber threats, which will be taking place in Central London early next year.