Plus, international trade for small businesses suffers while the UK’s economic credibility takes a pummelling

City wants better regulation not deregulation


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Hello. I am the FT’s Chief Business Correspondent and as part of my job I speak to a lot of businesses in the City. This week I will be looking at the government’s proposed changes to financial services regulation.
When UK business secretary Jacob Rees-Mogg was asked last week which one EU rule he would “junk” above all others, he replied without hesitation to a crowd at the Conservative party conference: “Solvency II.”

This story originally appeared on: Financial Times - Author:Daniel Thomas