Forthcoming events
Please visit this page at a later date for details of
forthcoming events.
Recent events
'The Future of Asian Financial Centres - Challenges and
Opportunities for the City of London' breakfast
On 3 November 2008, the Lord Mayor and Stuart Fraser hosted
a breakfast at Mansion House to draw on the Lord Mayor's recent
visits to China and the Far East and to mark the publication of the
latest in the City Corporation’s series of commissioned research
reports.
Entitled The Future of Asian Financial Centres - Challenges
and Opportunities for the City of London, the report analyses
the challenges and opportunities for UK-based financial services
from the leading Asian financial centres of Hong Kong, Singapore
and Tokyo.
View the Asian Financial Centres report
'The City of London's Supply Chain and its Relationship with
the City Fringes' research launch
On 24 September 2008, Stuart Fraser hosted a seminar
to launch the report The City of London's Supply
Chain and its Relationship with the City Fringes written
by cebr.
Mark Pragnell of cebr presented the key conclusions of the
report before a Q&A session took place.
View the Supply Chain report
Download the presentation given at the
seminar (1.32mb)
Annual Research Conference
On 22 May 2008, Stuart Fraser, Chairman of the City of London’s
Policy and Resources Committee, hosted the annual research
conference at the London Stock Exchange.
The conference focussed on the key findings of three research
reports recently published by the City of London.
Presentations were made by Alan Wilson of Oxford Economics on
The Impact of City Businesses in addressing Social
Disadvantage; Mark Tilden of CRA International on The
Impact of Taxation on Financial Services Business Location
Decisions; and Mark Yeandle of Z/Yen on The Global
Financial Centres Index (GFCI) 3.
View PDFs of the reports here
Download the Social Disadvantage
report presentation given at the
conference (162kb)
Download the Taxation report presentation given
at the conference (233kb)
Download the GFCI 3 report presentation given at
the conference (400kb)
Annual Research Reception
On 27 February 2008, Michael Snyder hosted the Annual Research
Reception in the City Marketing Suite.
The Reception is held to launch the annual
Research Review, to thank research associates and suppliers for
their contribution to the City’s programme of work and to
facilitate networking between the research community and its
audience.
‘The Impact of Recent Immigration on the London Economy’
research seminar
On 15 August 2007, Michael Snyder hosted a seminar to discuss
the report The Impact of Recent Immigration on the London
Economy written by the London School of Economics and
Political Science.
Christine Whitehead and Ian Gordon of the London School of
Economics and Political Science presented the key conclusions of
the report before a Q&A session took place.
View the Immigration report
Download the presentation given at the
seminar (605kb)
‘The Competitive Impact of London's Financial Market
Infrastructure’ roundtable
On 7 June 2007, Michael Snyder hosted a high-level roundtable to
discuss the report The Competitive Impact of London's Financial
Market Infrastructure written by Bourse Consult.
Lynton Jones of Bourse Consult presented the key conclusions of
the report before the roundtable discussion.
View the Infrastructure report
Download the presentation given at the
roundtable (473kb)