FCA, Bank of England, banking, payments and the UK capital markets.
With the junior bourse's company count near three-decade lows and last autumn's tax-relief cut still biting, calls are growing for the Chancellor to act before the next Budget.
Barclays, Lloyds, UBS and five fintechs join the regulator's expanded sandbox programme as London races to set the global rulebook for autonomous AI in financial services.
The April 2026 Financial Policy Committee record reveals fresh BoE simulations probing herding, cyber exposure and provider-concentration risks as UK banks accelerate generative and agentic AI deployment.
The private credit market has surpassed $2 trillion in assets under management, overtaking traditional leveraged loan markets and drawing new regulatory scrutiny as institutional capital floods into direct lending.
The GENIUS Act creates the first US federal framework for payment stablecoins, forcing Tether, Circle, and a wave of bank entrants to operate under strict reserve and oversight rules — and putting UK and EU regulators on notice about the pace of the dollar's digital expansion.
From China's digital yuan to the European Central Bank's advancing digital euro, central bank digital currencies are moving from pilot to policy — with profound implications for financial privacy, banking, and monetary sovereignty.
