UPCOMING POLICY DISCUSSION

Cumberland Lodge Financial Services Conference 2026

Cumberland Lodge, Windsor

Thursday 5 and Friday 6 November 2026

Against a backdrop of geopolitical change and increasing market complexity, this year’s Summit will explore The Changing Global Order: Navigating Market and Regulatory Challenges.

Speakers will include Paulina Dejmek Hack, Deputy Director-General of DG FISMA at the European Commission, and Katharine Braddick, Deputy Governor for Prudential Regulation and CEO of the Prudential Regulation Authority, who will discuss safeguarding financial resilience while supporting economic growth. Dame Anne Richards, Chair of Coutts & Co and Senior Adviser to Fidelity International, will address participants over dinner.

A headline session on Regulatory Resilience in a Geopolitically Divided World will bring together John Schindler, Secretary General of the Financial Stability Board, and Rodrigo Buenaventura, Secretary General of the International Organization of Securities Commissions, to examine the tension between national ring-fencing, global capital mobility and systemic stability.

The programme will also feature senior representatives from the Financial Conduct Authority, European Banking Authority, Bank of England, Council of the EU, Czech National Bank and leading financial institutions across Europe.

RECENT PUBLICATION

INFRASTRUCTURE INVESTMENT: FINDING THE 'SWEET SPOT'

The importance of aligning public and private finance to maximise opportunities for future major infrastructure projects is clear, and The Infrastructure Forum has been examining some of the issues that are limiting the full use of private finance.

In particular, under the leadership of Michael Gerrard, the Forum has been examining how adaptations to classification rules, governance processes, working practices and the use of government guarantees can increase the flow of private investment into infrastructure, while maintaining financial market confidence in public sector financial reporting.

The analysis highlights the need to:

Introduce growth duties for relevant public bodies.
Increase transparency and engagement with project sponsors.
Reform project classification rules so they better reflect the realities of infrastructure delivery.
Make greater use of government support packages similar to those successfully deployed for the Thames Tideway Tunnel and Sizewell C projects.

This paper sets out a series of practical recommendations aimed at attracting greater private investment into UK infrastructure.

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FORUM GROUPS

The European Financial Forum brings together policymakers, regulators and market participants in constructive dialogue.

It holds frequent special roundtables on topical issues, which allow a fruitful exchange of confidential analysis, perspective and policy ideas.

POLICY INNOVATIONS FOR THE UK AND EU

UPCOMING POLICY DISCUSSION

RECENT PUBLICATION

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