The fate of British finance following the Brexit referendum revolves around the "resilience or relocation" debate: will the City of London continue to thrive as the world’s leading financial centre or will the bulk of its activity move to rival hubs after departure from EU trading...

The United Kingdom (UK) has one of the largest financial services sectors in the world, and strong consumer protection regulation. Yet, despite nearly 2 decades of financial inclusion policymaking, persistent problems remain. Many individuals, often the most vulnerable, are unable to get...

This paper examines the impacts of Brexit as an external shock to European financial centre relations. In particular, it studies the changing nature of Paris-London financial relations post Brexit. Early on in the Brexit process, Paris was not understood as the most likely European centre to...

This paper responds to Bathelt and Li's (2020) call for selecting more appropriate methods and improving their rigour by evaluating the feasibility of using factorial surveys to anticipate future relocation behaviour. By utilising a case study approach, focussing on Brexit and the UK FinTech...

This paper explores the sources of agglomeration externalities in enhancing firm performance, in particular, the pecuniary externality that supports firms' bottom line. The fundamental argument on increasing returns leads to the premise that cluster size has beneficial influence to firm...

The UK has embarked upon a programme of reform that will result in the Financial Services Authority (FSA) being split into two separate authorities, the Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA) and the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA). A new BoE committee, the Financial Policy Committee (FPC),...

This analysis argues that the development of UK financial services law is effectively the history of English financial services law and that English financial services regulation has largely been concerned with the City of London. The regulation of the UK financial services sector is reasonably...