From Brexit to Berne: Financial services enter a new era of global cooperation |
2026 will be a year for collaborating with international partners to tackle shared challenges, reduce cross-border financing barriers, and promote investment, says Dame Susan Langley
Henry Ford once said that “coming together is a beginning, keeping together is progress, but working together is success”. As global ambassador for the UK’s financial and professional services sector, my goal for 2026 is to ensure we’re not only coming together with our international partners, but truly working together to tackle joint challenges and reach our shared goals.
In his first interview of 2026, the Prime Minister said that – nearly a decade on from the Brexit vote – our relations with the EU are in “the best position they’ve been in ten years”. As I said when the German President, Frank-Walter Steinmeier, visited the City during his state visit in December, in the current geopolitical and economic environment, we really do need a pragmatic approach to our shared challenges.
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