TheCityUK hails opportunity for trade and investment policy reset

31 January 2017

TheCityUK has published new calls for the UK to make the most of the once-in-a-generation opportunity to recalibrate and repurpose its trade and investment policy to benefit the wider economy once Britain leaves the EU.

Its paper underlines the potential presented by deals that focus on regulatory coherence and cooperation as well as next generation international trade and investment agreements which would not only strengthen London’s position as the leading global financial centre, but also bring new growth opportunities to key financial centres across the whole of the country.

In the latest of a series of papers from TheCityUK analysing the challenges and opportunities arising from Brexit for the UK-based financial and professional services industry, ‘Future UK Trade and Investment Policy’ highlights the unprecedented importance for UK policies to relate to global growth trends in both developed and emerging markets. It calls for greater focus on supporting trade in services to reflect its vital contribution to the national economy and underlines the need for Britain to take a global leadership role in twenty-first century issues such as data and data localisation, cyber security and Fintech.

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