Brexit Agreement On Christmas Eve, the United Kingdom successfully reached an agreement with the European Union on its future cooperation. The details of this agreement between Europe’s two largest economies cover a wide range of topics but offers little to the UK’s most valuable export: financial services. In the over 1,200 pages of the UK-EU Trade and Cooperation Agreement (TCA) it was even noted that the phrase ‘financial services’ was mentioned ...
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Dear Members, As we approach the end of 2020 we look back on what has been an extremely challenging and a very difficult year. The pandemic which we have faced all year and which continues to impact all of us has been much greater than I think any of us would have imagined at the start of the year. Many of us know people and families impacted by the virus and ...
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Even if the EU and the UK conclude an ambitious partnership covering all aspects agreed in the Political Declaration by the end of 2020, the UK leaving the European Union, the internal market and the Customs Union, at the end of the transition period will automatically create barriers to trade and cross-border exchanges that are not experienced today. How will the changing rules and circumstances for trade impact the relationship ...
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Brexit Talks Over the weekend, PM Johnson and EC President von der Leyen said it was “responsible at this point to go the extra mile” during Brexit trade talks. Disagreements continue over the EU’s insistence to hold onto their £600m of fish, caught in British waters each year, due to President Macron wanting to gain support from French fishing communities. In the event of a no-deal: the Royal Navy have prepared ...
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To access a recording of this webinar, click here. A Financial Forecast With Azad Zangana, a Senior European Economist & Strategist at Schroders, and Christina Nyman, a Chief Economist at Handelsbanken To access a recording of this webinar, click here. Christina Nyman Christina Nyman works with Handelsbanken to regulate and produce global macro forecasts for the world economy (including home markets such as the Nordics, UK and Netherlands). Handelsbanken have just published a global macro ...
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Post-Pandemic Priorities: What governments and business need to focus on as we emerge from the COVID-19 pandemic To watch a recording of this webinar, click here. Bill Emmot is a writer and consultant with experience ranging from being the former Editor-In-Chief at The Economist, Chairman of the International Institute for Strategic Studies, Chairman of the Board at Trinity College, Dublin, and the Japanese Society in the UK 4 Cascading Crises The major cascading crises, ...
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EU Exit Talks On Monday (7th December) it was revealed that PM Johnson would be travelling to Brussels to meet von der Leyen in person. This comes after the two leaders spoke on the phone for over an hour but were unable to come to an agreement. Britain has also offered to drop key clauses from the internal markets bill in a bid to encourage a deal to be reached. An ...
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Elsa Bernadotte, co-founder of Karma One-third of all food produced is thrown away annually, resulting in 1.3 billion tonnes of waste worldwide. Karma enables rescuing unsold meals. Since it’s founding, Karma, in part spearheaded by Elsa Bernadotte, has taken on a role of educating and re-evaluating the food industry. With digital transformation, speaking to a broad spectrum of consumers, producers and enablers, Elsa solidly represents a new generation of thoughtleaders. How ...
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Brexit Talks The 15th of October deadline for Brexit talks to be completed, set by PM Johnson, has been completely missed due to numerous negotiation sticking points remaining. If a trade deal is not reached then trade between the UK and EU will not cease once we enter 2021. However, the Johnson Government would come under heavy political criticism from many supporters of a hard-Brexit as the UK would have lost ...
Read MoreSupply chain diversification has been an issue of interest for some time due to the movement around the world. Many of the changes we are seeing today started some time ago. Now, companies are becoming more cognisant of weaknesses in their supply chain. As businesses assess their operational capacity for recovery in order to recalibrate during and post pandemic, it is crucial to take a holistic view and understand the ...
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