Andrew Griffith: ‘Tell us which City rules to slash’ Opinion Look at a UK companies’ annual report today and you will find a lengthy tome more likely to resemble a doorstop than something to provoke interest or excitement from investors. Much of this is the result of a vast expansion of corporate reporting requirements placed on businesses, starting with Labour’s Companies Act 2006 and pursued [...]
Tariff response: slash red tape and lure the non-doms back Opinion Shadow Business Secretary Andrew Griffith on the five steps the government should now take A few years before he died, Henry Kissinger described Trump as “one of those figures in history who appears from time to time to mark the end of an era and to force it to give up its old pretences”. It [...]
London, and the UK, must seize the opportunity to lead in crypto regulation Andrew Griffith The UK tech sector is doing great in so many ways - it's time it embraces a balanced approach to crypto regulation as one of its main tenets, writes Andrew Griffiths
We have the history to attract investment, now we need the reforms to the City too April 18, 2023 London has the benefits of proximity to Europe, the English language and the common law. But to keep business investment coming to our shores, we need to push ahead with new reforms, writes Andrew Griffith Is the UK the best place in the world for business? Absolutely. For over 400 years, the UK has pioneered [...]
Crypto evangelicals and the collapse of FTX are the reason we need to regulate February 2, 2023 You only have to look back as far as last year where we saw the high-profile collapse of the crypto exchange FTX, or indeed the collapse of the supposed stablecoin Terra (Luna).
Open banking success has cracked the code for more tech innovation in the UK January 15, 2023 The benefits of new technologies can seem hidden at first - but innovation always brings growth. Open banking is a great example on which the government is basing its strategy, writes Andrew Griffith
