Regulated Radio Podcasts
Looking for digestible insights on the impact of regulation? Guess what - you found the right place. In this monthly podcast series, Deloitte’s sharpest thinkers will talk you through key public policy developments that are shaping financial services, digital markets and other industries. We’ll keep our episodes short and sweet, you have our word. So, let’s have a Regulated chat, shall we?
About the Centre for Regulatory Strategy, EMEA
The Centre for Regulatory Strategy is a source of critical insight and advice on the future of regulation, designed to assist clients to anticipate change and respond with confidence to the strategic and aggregate impact of national and international financial markets and digital markets regulation.
With regional hubs in the Americas, Asia Pacific and EMEA, the Centre combines the strength of Deloitte’s regional and international network of experienced risk, regulatory, and industry professionals – including a deep roster of former regulators, industry specialists, and business advisers – with a rich understanding of the impact of regulations on business models and strategy.
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Episode 50: How can financial services and financial services regulation impact the UK’s growth agenda?
Speakers: David Strachan and Ian Stewart
David Strachan and Ian Stewart combine their regulatory and economic expertise to discuss whether financial services and financial services regulation are likely to facilitate or hinder the UK government’s growth agenda. In particular they take a closer look at political sentiment from some quarters that UK regulators have been regulating for risk rather than growth.
The conversation covered a range of relevant issues including:
- The UK’s growth agenda and the role of financial services
- The impact of regulatory changes on facilitating greater lending or more investment into infrastructure or other productive assets relative to other levers such as monetary and fiscal policy
- Geopolitical uncertainty and the prospects for economic growth
- The resilience of sovereign debt markets in in the face of significant market volatility
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David Strachan
David joined Deloitte after 12 years at the UK’s Financial Services Authority. His last role was as Director of Financial Stability, working with UK and international counterparts to deal with the immediate impact of the Great Financial Crisis and the regulatory reform programme that followed it.
Suchitra Nair
Suchitra leads Deloitte’s EMEA Centre for Regulatory Strategy, a team that monitors the regulatory horizon and helps clients and Deloitte colleagues to navigate the impact of regulatory change. The team has two areas of sectoral focus: Financial Services regulation (mature) and Digital Markets regulation (early stage), the latter being a new business area that was developed by Suchitra, to help build Deloitte’s eminence in a new market. She has published extensively on the direction of travel of regulation and the related strategic and operational impact on firms. As part of her various leadership roles in Deloitte, she is actively involved in helping Deloitte, financial services firms, and more recently technology providers and digital platforms, to understand the impact of regulation on their strategy. Her team delivers Board and SMF training, and bespoke regulatory briefings to Boards, Senior Executives and regulatory change leads. She is also passionate about lending her expertise to help shape the future of policy to enable a more safe and sustainable FS ecosystem. She has contributed to a number of industry and government working groups and thought leadership pieces including DTI’s UK FinTech - State of the Nation (2019, named author) and the World Economic Forum report on Future of Financial Services Series: Technology, Innovation and Systemic Risk (Pushing through Undercurrents). She holds a number of industry roles that are involved in shaping the policy landscape in FS including Chair, CityUK Technology and Innovation Working Group; Chair, CityUK AI Working Group; Member, IBDE, FS Advisory Group; Member, CBI, Financial Services Committee. Suchitra started her career at Deloitte/ Arthur Andersen in 2001 and has worked in a number of Deloitte teams through the course of her career including Audit, Corporate Finance and Risk and Regulation Advisory.
Isha Gupta
Isha is a Manager at the Centre for Regulatory Strategy, and focuses on Investment Management. Prior to Deloitte she worked in the in-house Compliance team of a wealth manager for 4 years and has done the CISI Investment Compliance Diploma. She holds an Economics degree from the University of Edinburgh and has done the Graduate Diploma in Law and Legal Practice Course qualifications.
