Navigate Mid-Market Strategy in 2026

Our Capital Markets Group focuses on guaranteeing the long-lasting competitiveness of the UK's public equity markets. Members are professionals from across the capital markets and noting community and interested parties, with senior professionals from the buy side, offer side, intermediaries, and market bodies. The group brings together these voices to reflect the cross-industry nature of the financial and associated professional services industry's role in this ecosystem.

Recognizing political, policy and regulative wins that can support the aspirations of the group. Encouraging and supporting broader TheCityUK activity to influence the policy and regulative environment, the media environment, market individuals, and to drive action on effective services. Making sure that varied cross-industry perspectives are shown in the group's outputs, and TheCityUK policy positions, outputs, and advocacy activities.

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The research, carried out by EY, is based upon in-depth quantitative analysis and over 100 interviews and studies of market participants: including business founders, leaders of pre-IPO business, leaders of openly traded companies, financiers, advisers, investment managers, and infrastructure providers. The report can be downloaded listed below.

This report deals with the urgent need for the UK to push ahead with the digital transformation of its capital markets. This is essential to the long term global competitiveness of the UK as an international monetary centre, and to its capital markets important enabling function of providing the capital needed to drive financial investment and sustainable growth, underpinning the jobs, pensions, financial investments and savings of UK residents.

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Professional Analysis of UK Capital Markets

Provided the essential role of FMIs to the general monetary industry, fast digitalisation would offer substantial potential to unlock the development of capital markets and the wider economy. While the UK has actually taken favorable steps to motivate a regulatory environment that supports monetary markets digitalisation, and momentum is constructing for tokenisation, it is lagging behind markets such as France, Germany, Luxembourg, Hong Kong and Singapore when it comes to digital bond issuance.

The report sets out concrete actions for the federal government, regulators and industry to take forward in the near and medium term to keep the UK's status as a world-leading international financial centre and support the government's development objective.

Possibly the most exciting development is the growing acknowledgment that retail participation is not an optional extra, but a requirement for lively, resistant markets. The new structure enables innovations, in particular the launch of Access Bonds, which will enable specific financiers to purchase bonds in denominations as little as 1.

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Leveraging Venture Funding for Mid-Market Firms

At Barclays, we have long promoted for precisely this kind of change utilizing our combined experience as an advisor to corporates releasing bonds, our function supporting the placement of those issuances and our position as a company of retail investor options and wealth management suggestions and services. Our report, , highlighted how opening up bond markets to specific savers can deepen liquidity, reinforce cost discovery, and assist families construct more varied portfolios.

It is my belief that the reforms announced this week bring us much better to that aspiration.

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Leveraging Venture Funding for UK Growth

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