Agenda

Here's what's scheduled for the event. All times are in BST. 

8:25 AM
Registration, networking and coffee
 
8:55 AM
Welcome and Introduction

Maurice Button, CEO, City & Financial Global 

9:00 AM
Chair’s opening remarks

Ashar Qureshi, Partner, Fried Frank 

9:05 AM
Keynote Address I: The Government’s vision for UK markets: delivering growth and competitiveness in financial services
 
9:25 AM
Keynote Address II: Regulating for growth: the FCA’s capital markets reform agenda
 
9:45 AM
Panel: The future of UK public markets: how effective has PISCES and the Listing, Prospectus and Secondary Capital Raising reforms been?

Moderator

James Wootton, Partner, Linklaters

Panellists

Dame Julia Hoggett DBE, CEO, London Stock Exchange plc

John Wilkinson, Managing Director, Co-Head EMEA ECM Origination, Goldman Sachs

Charles Hall, Head of Research, Peel Hunt

Julian Morse, CEO, Cavendish plc

10:25 AM
Panel: Unlocking pension capital for UK growth: what would be the practical impact of committing more pension fund assets to UK investments?

Panellists

Tim Fassam, Director of Public Affairs, Standard Life

James Ashton, CEO, The Quoted Companies Alliance 

11:05 AM
Networking and coffee break
 
11:30 AM
Panel: How successful has the Retail Investment Campaign been to date? How can tax incentives and “targeted support” drive greater retail participation?

Panellists 

Richard Flint, Deputy Chair, Hargreaves Lansdown 

Sasha Wiggins, CEO, Private Bank and Wealth Management, Barclays and Chair, Retail Investment Campaign 

Miranda Seath, Director, Market Insight and Funds Sectors, The Investment Association 

12:10 PM
Panel: The continued growth of private markets and the relationship with public markets: why are private markets increasingly attractive to investors and how does this impact public markets?

Moderator

Tom Godwin, Partner, Freshfields

Panellists

Claire Suddens-Spiers, Co-Head of Equity Markets Solutions, Rothschild & Co, Chair, TheCityUK’s Capital Markets Group

Sarah Adams, Director of Policy, UK Private Capital 

12:50 PM
Presentation: The Dematerialisation Market Action Taskforce (DEMAT) report and reforms to the UK’s shareholding framework

Mark Austin, Partner, Latham & Watkins LLP 

1:15 PM
Networking and lunch break
 
2:15 PM
Panel: What more needs to be done to make London the natural home for growth companies

Moderator

Aseet Dalvi, Partner, Fried Frank 

Panellists

Irene Graham OBE, CEO, The ScaleUp Institute

Janine Hirt, CEO, Innovate Finance 

2:55 PM
Panel discussion: How the UK capital markets are moving to a fully tokenised future based on DLT

Panellists

Nikolai Dienerowitz, Partner, Oliver Wyman 

Speaker tbc, Equiniti 

3:40 PM
Networking and afternoon tea
 
4:00 PM
Panel discussion: Changing international perceptions of UK markets

Moderator

Vanessa Blackmore, Partner, Sullivan & Cromwell

Panellists

Patrick Thomson, CEO, EMEA, J.P. Morgan Asset Management 

4:40 PM
Fireside chat: What will shape the capital markets of tomorrow? AI, deregulation and geopolitics

In conversation with

Sir Simon Fraser, Chairman, Royal Institute of International Affairs (Chatham House) 

5:00 PM
Chair’s closing remarks

Ashar Qureshi, Partner, Fried Frank 

5:10 PM
Conference close
 

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