You can use the search function to find a range of UK Finance material, from consultation responses to thought leadership to blogs, or to find content on a range of topics from Capital Markets & Wholesale to Payments & Innovation.
1. Prime Minister announces resignation
2. UK Finance publishes product transfer figures for Q1 2019
The number of homeowners who switched mortgage product with their existing provider in the first quarter of 2019 according to the figures published by today by UK Finance.
The Prime Minister has announced she will resign on June 7 with a new Conservative party leadership race beginning in just over a week. In a speech at Downing Street this morning, Theresa May said it's a regret she couldn't deliver Brexit (Sky News). A YouGov poll for The Times (p1, £) suggests Boris Johnson is the overwhelming favourite among 125,000 Conservative members to be the next leader.
Meanwhile, chair of the City of London's policy committee Catherine McGuiness called for Britain to find a way through Brexit and project an image of openness to trade and immigration ( Politico (online only).
UK Finance has published its latest mortgage product transfer figures for the first quarter of 2019. These reveal 290,000 homeowners switched product with their existing provider in the first quarter of 2019, a decrease of 1.7 per cent year-on-year. By value, this represents £39.2 billion of mortgage debt refinanced internally, an increase of 2.1 per cent year-on-year. Of the total number of product transfers in the first quarter of 2019, 161,100 were on an advised basis, an increase of 8.6 per cent year-on-year. 128,900 product transfers were conducted on an execution only basis, a decrease of 12.1 per cent year-on-year. The product transfer market tends to move in line with the external remortgaging market, but this will vary depending on individual lenders and brokers? retention strategies.
In their third and final joint blog post, Becky Clements, our Director of Payments and SWIFT UK's Vikesh Patel discuss how new technologies are playing their part in making cross-border payments seamless.
A senior banking chief has criticised the high costs of Mifid saying the regulation has brought little benefits to the industry so far (Financial Times, p27, £).
European Central Bank policymakers are concerned that economic growth in the eurozone is even weaker than feared, eroding their confidence in a long-projected recovery in the second half of this year, reports Reuters (online only).
Facebook has been working for more than a year to create a digital currency that its two billion users can use to transfer money and purchase goods (Financial Times, online only).
The defence secretary Penny Mordaunt has announced £22m of funding for a new army cyber operations centre (Sky News, online only).
In the Financial Times, Gillian Tett (p13, £) comments on how ethics as opposed to financial metrics are the main cause as to why a chief executive is most likely to get fired in the workplace today. Tett cites PwC analysis showing culture and a shift in standards and expectations as contributing factors alongside technology which enables protests to snowball rapidly. She concludes, investors and CEOs must realise corporate social responsibility is no longer a ?label? as it ?bites with a vengeance?.
In the Daily Mail (p,85), Alex Brummer discusses how the next European Parliament will influence the choice of who succeeds Mario Draghi as president of the European Central Bank in October. Brummer argues if Germany's Jens Weidmann were to get the job, and the ECB continues to retreat from quantitative easing, the eurozone will tip into recession, strengthening populist sentiment.
Sign up below to receive the News in Brief straight to your inbox
19.04.24
17.04.24
15.04.24
By downloading this document, you understand and agree that any sharing, distribution or republishing of the content, without prior written authorisation from the author or content managers at UK Finance, shall be constituted as a breach of the UK Finance website terms of use.
