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Our Capital Markets Group concentrates on making sure the long-term competitiveness of the UK's public equity markets. Members are experts from across the capital markets and listing environment and interested celebrations, with senior practitioners from the buy side, offer side, intermediaries, and market bodies. The group combines these voices to show the cross-industry nature of the financial and associated expert services industry's function in this environment.

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The research, carried out by EY, is based upon comprehensive quantitative analysis and over 100 interviews and studies of market participants: including company founders, leaders of pre-IPO companies, leaders of openly traded business, investors, advisers, investment supervisors, and facilities service providers. The report can be downloaded below.

This report addresses the immediate need for the UK to press ahead with the digital change of its capital markets. This is essential to the long term global competitiveness of the UK as an international financial centre, and to its capital markets essential allowing function of providing the capital needed to drive financial investment and sustainable development, underpinning the jobs, pensions, financial investments and savings of UK residents.

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Given the basic role of FMIs to the overall monetary industry, quick digitalisation would provide huge potential to unlock the development of capital markets and the broader economy. While the UK has actually taken favorable steps to encourage a regulatory environment that supports financial markets digitalisation, and momentum is building for tokenisation, it is dragging markets such as France, Germany, Luxembourg, Hong Kong and Singapore when it comes to digital bond issuance.

The report sets out concrete actions for the government, regulators and industry to take forward in the near and medium term to keep the UK's status as a world-leading international financial centre and support the government's development mission.

Perhaps the most exciting development is the growing recognition that retail involvement is not an optional additional, but a necessity for vibrant, durable markets. The new structure enables developments, in specific the launch of Access Bonds, which will allow individual investors to purchase bonds in denominations as little as 1.

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At Barclays, we have long promoted for exactly this sort of modification using our combined experience as a consultant to corporates providing bonds, our function supporting the positioning of those issuances and our position as a supplier of retail financier solutions and wealth management recommendations and services. Our report, , highlighted how opening bond markets to private savers can deepen liquidity, strengthen price discovery, and help households develop more diverse portfolios.

It is my belief that the reforms announced today bring us much better to that ambition.

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