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Video analysis—The asset management sector: Are we being sufficiently innovative?

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Published on: 30 January 2024

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Financial Services analysis: Kirstene Baillie, partner at Fieldfisher LLP, discusses progress in delivering developments in UK regulation for asset management, encouraging working with the regulators to find the right framework moving forwards. She questions whether those in the industry are being sufficiently radical in their thinking on how to move forwards—identifying the need for us to think out of the box to devise new solutions for new challenges. Her key theme is that it is for those in the industry to develop innovative ideas.

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