Until now EU policy has tended to dominate much of the debate about financial services remuneration in the UK. With Brexit, this will begin to change, and the regulatory environment outside Europe will need more attention, for instance.

Meanwhile Compensation, Rewards and HR managers still have plenty of new UK rules about which to worry, some specifically addressed to remuneration and some affecting it tangentially. In addition, there is a growing focus on socially related areas such as gender pay.

This conference will be the eleventh in this series and is firmly established as the leading event in this field. It will examine the detailed challenges and it will try to take both a short and long term view.

The government is proposing to extend the Senior Managers and Certification (SM&CR) regime to all sectors of the financial services industry, replacing the discredited Approved Persons Regime. The FCA has announced that the extension will take place in 2018.

The conference will bring together an expert speaker panel to discuss the latest policy developments, capacity generation issues and investment climate in relation to meeting the challenges of the UK’s energy market. The event will also discuss the possible implications of BREXIT, and what this means for energy policy and future investment.

On 8 November, HM Treasury announced that 93 firms across the financial services sector have now signed the Women in Finance Charter, which reflects the UK government’s aspiration to see gender balance at all levels across financial services firms. These firms have committed to promote gender diversity by implementing key industry actions as recommended in THE REVIEW into the representation of women in senior managerial positions in financial services by Jayne-Anne Gadhia, CEO, Virgin Money, published on 22 March.

After a long history of working with HM Treasury on a variety of successful high-level events, City & Financial Global is organising this event, hosted at Bloomberg’s headquarters.

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This highly topical summit explores how best councils and the private sector can work together to meet the Government’s ambitious targets.

Insurance Linked Securities, closely related to risk linked securities and catastrophe bonds, are one of the fastest growing parts of the insurance market. But London has missed out on much of the business to date because the UK does not have rules which allow ILS to be issued, so it has lost out to other jurisdictions.

The recent Review of data-security, consent and opt-outs by Dame Fiona Caldicott, National Data Guardian of Health & Care has reaffirmed the challenge of information security across an evolving health and care system. The solution lies in successfully integrating people, processes and technology, which NHS Digital is supporting through an expanded offer for its many valued partners.

It has been widely acknowledged that blockchain offers an opportunity to reduce costs, to improve efficiency, to reduce risks and, overall, to provide a better customer service, which ultimately is what financial services need to be all about.

The Market Abuse Regulation only came into effect in the United Kingdom on 3rd July 2016, but, already, its far reaching nature has disturbed the financial community.

It has been one year and a half since Iran, The United States and five other world powers reached a deal designed to limit Tehran’s nuclear programme. As a result, the United Nations lifted all nuclear-related sanctions and the EU lifted many bilateral sanctions on Iran’s banking and energy sectors. Slowly but surely, progress is being made towards establishing normal trade relations between the UK and Iran.

Crispin Wright, Director General, The Panel on Takeovers and Mergers will be commenting on the impact of the latest developments in the market on panel policy.

This event will examine the latest developments in the cyber security issues financial institutions are facing, with particular emphasis on cyber resilience, cyber security culture, supply chain security and the protection of critical financial infrastructure, as well as risk mitigation strategies.

Culture and conduct remain top of the agenda not only for financial institutions, but also for the regulators, as Andrew Bailey, CEO of the PRA and shortly to be CEO of the FCA, made clear at our City Week event earlier this month.

City & Financial’s 13th Annual Infrastructure Policy Summit will bring together some of the key players in the UK infrastructure markets to discuss the latest policy initiatives and the implications of these for market participants.

Now that the EBA Guidelines on remuneration have appeared, the next issue is how they will be implemented by the UK financial authorities.

The bonds markets are now under attack from all directions. The purpose of this conference will be to examine the problems and then to look at the various possible solutions.

A blueprint for how £13 billion of government investment will help create the Northern Powerhouse was unveiled in September, £600m was added in the following Autumn Statement and a further £200m in the last Budget.

The EU post-crisis change agenda is designed to meet the G20 objectives, generate higher standards in governance and conduct, strengthen market transparency and integrity and establish a safer financial system.

Now in its sixth year, City Week is the premier international gathering of the international financial services community. It brings together policy makers and senior industry representatives from round the globe to consider together the future of financial markets and London, in particular.

The nuclear agreement has given Iran and Britain the opportunity to make a historic break with the past and marks the beginning of a new era in their relationship.

Building on the success of our inaugural scene-setting Capital Markets Union Summit last May, this event is the first in a series of ECMU implementation events

The purpose of this conference will be to examine the impact of the new competition powers on the various sectors of the financial services industry.

This highly topical event on Transaction and Trade Reporting Under MiFID II is part of a two year programme of events on MiFID II.

Following up on the success of the last year’s event we are organising The 2nd Annual Energy Cyber Security Executive Forum in cooperation with National Grid & DECC.

Following on from our successful Cyber Security Series in 2014-2015, The UK Health Cyber Security Summit will examine the latest cyber security issues faced by NHS, private hospitals and GP practices, with particular emphasis on cyber resilience, cloud-based threat intelligence, security of medical devices, electronic patient records as well as new mobile healthcare services.

This highly topical event explores how best councils and the private sector can work together to meet the Government’s ambitious targets.

Market abuse is already quite a broad and flexible offence, changes under the Market Abuse Regulation and MiFID II will further broaden out the types of products and venues that are captured by the market abuse regime and this will result in more enforcement cases.

The summit programme tackles the key issues from a very practical perspective. In addition to examining what the FCA actually expects from firms in relation to having the right culture and appropriate standards of conduct.