The Capital Markets Industry Taskforce is comprised of leading organisations from across the financial markets ecosystem to drive forward the development of the UK’s capital markets.
The UK Capital Markets Industry Taskforce (CMIT) comprises CEOs, Chairs and industry leaders representing private and publicly listed companies, asset owners and managers, and the advisory services that support their access to capital and investments – representing the full end-to-end ecosystem of the public and private capital markets.
The Taskforce aims to maximise the impact of capital market reforms, ensuring the UK is the place where great companies can start, grow, scale and stay and to help investors access assets that provide returns and support the real economy in which they live and work.
Supporting UK capital markets to continue creating jobs, fostering innovation and stimulating growth
Support great companies to start, grow, scale, and stay
Help savers, pensioners and policy holders find the best assets to invest in
Given their critical role, it is essential that capital markets work effectively and drive investment into the real economy
The UK has a superb start-up ecosystem, and yet not all of those great companies reach the scale they need or secure financing in the UK.
World-leading universities
A unicorn created on average every 27 days
World-leading in emerging sectors like fintech and life sciences
Addressing this challenge is a vision underpinning much of the regulatory reform currently being undertaken in the UK – including through the Kalifa Review, the Hill Review, and the Austin Review.
However, not all the change required to ensure the UK has the growth and productivity gains it seeks will come from regulatory reforms alone. It also needs to come from the full end-to-end ecosystem of the UK capital markets working to implement and embed those changes.
There is great consensus around the need for this change and positive momentum behind it and that is why a group of industry leaders who are users of the capital markets have come together in support of these efforts.
The inaugural Taskforce members bring a deep understanding and expertise from across the UK’s financial ecosystem.
“I am honoured to Chair the UK Capital Markets Industry Taskforce. This is a great opportunity to work with senior practitioners across the financial markets to build on the momentum of the UK market reviews and reforms, and ensure our markets are right for future generations.”
Julia Hoggett, CEO of the London Stock Exchange plc,
Chair of the Taskforce.
Taskforce members will convene sub-groups, deliberately drawing from a wide range of industry, academia and civil society, on specific areas where change is needed to ensure an inclusive and thorough debate.
Julia Hoggett
CEO, LSE plc (Chair)
Specialist area: Exchange
Mark Austin
Partner, Latham & Watkins
Specialist area: Lawyer
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Katharine Braddick
Group Head of Strategic
Policy and Advisor to the
Group CEO, Barclays Plc
Specialist area: Corporate and Investment Banking
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Peter Harrison
CEO, Schroders
Specialist area: Asset Management
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Klaus Hommels
VC and Lakestar Founder
Specialist area: Venture
Capital Investing
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Nicholas Lyons
Chairman, Phoenix Group
Specialist area: Pension Funds/Insurance
On sabbatical whilst performing
his duties as Lord Mayor
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Andy Briggs
Group CEO, Phoenix Group
Specialist area: Insurance
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Matthew Scullion
CEO and Founder, Matillion
Specialist area: Private Companies
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Joe Cassidy
Head of Corporate Strategy for KPMG UK and the Head of Financial Services Strategy for KPMG UK.
Specialist area: Advisory/Audit/Accountancy
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Sir Jonathan Symonds
Chairman, GSK Plc
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“The UK has made enormous progress in becoming one of the best places in the world to found a high growth company. Recent reforms bring further opportunities to create world-leading companies in high growth sectors but if the UK is to create the next Apple or Alphabet, we need an ecosystem which allows companies to be scaled from the UK.
I am delighted to join this Taskforce which aims to do just that, ensuring companies can access the capital and support they need at every stage to scale globally whilst calling the UK their home.”
Matthew Scullion, CEO and Founder, Matillion
The Capital Markets Industry Taskforce publishes information about its work and governance, including minutes of its Board meetings and its terms of reference.
- CMIT minutes - Jul 2022
- CMIT minutes - Sep 2022
- CMIT minutes - Oct 2022
- CMIT minutes - Nov 2022
- CMIT minutes - Dec 2022
- CMIT minutes - Jan 2023
- CMIT minutes - Feb 2023
- CMIT minutes - Mar 2023
- CMIT minutes - Apr 2023
- CMIT minutes - May 2023
- CMIT minutes - Jun 2023
- CMIT minutes - Jul 2023
- CMIT minutes - Aug 2023
- CMIT minutes - Sep 2023
- CMIT minutes - Oct 2023
- CMIT minutes - Nov 2023
- CMIT minutes - Dec 2023
- CMIT minutes - Jan 2024
- CMIT minutes - Feb 2024
- CMIT minutes - Mar 2024
The CMIT Conference – Corporate Governance Workshop – Discussion Materials
CMIT Conference – keynote speeches and panel discussions
We publish our latest thinking on the future of the UK’s capital markets. You can find our latest blogs and letters here.
- CMIT Response to the Pensions Review
- UK Stewardship Code Review – an open letter from CMIT
- Report: the Capital Markets of Tomorrow
- UK requires £1 trillion of additional investment over the next decade to deliver targeted economic growth rates, Capital Markets Of Tomorrow report finds
- Julia Hoggett City Week Keynote Address 20 May 2024
- CMIT Response to Spring Budget 2024
- CMIT Response to Autumn Statement 2023
- Resetting the UK’s approach to corporate governance – an open letter from CMIT
- CMIT Letter to the Chancellor of the Exchequer ahead of the Autumn Statement
- CMIT Letter to the Rt Hon Jeremy Hunt MP, Chancellor of the Exchequer
- Report by New Financial: Unlocking the capital in capital markets
- CMIT Commissions Report on UK Capital Markets of Tomorrow