John Healey returns to a City that has outgrown his mid-2000s rulebook

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John Healey's appointment to Chancellor caught Westminster off-guard As Chancellor John Healey returns to the Treasury, he must recognise that the City’s competitive landscape has fundamentally ...

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This has created several challenges. Firstly, boardroom attention has been consumed to such an extent that focus is diverted away from other pressing issues. A huge amount of capital has also been absorbed which has led to a level of operational risk on a scale few could have anticipated back in 2006.Get weekly sparky insight and expert commentary on markets, entrepreneurship and innovation from CityAM’s Opinion Editor, delivered every Saturday.Scaling AIIn addition, regulation has become exponentially more demanding following the 2008 crash. And if this wasn’t enough, technology investment cycles have accelerated and cloud migration remains painstakingly complicated. 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According to Healey, preserving Britain’s light touch regulatory regime was imperative to “maintaining London’s position as the world’s leading financial centre”.Two decades later, the irony is that the biggest change to the City’s plumbing has less to do with exchange competition, and more to do with investment banks looking to relinquish control of the less glamorous parts of their business in a relentless efficiency savings drive. From post-trade operations and settlements to regulatory reporting and risk systems, all the nuts-and-bolts activity was largely nestled under the middle- and back-office bonnets of investment banks. Back when Healey was Financial Secretary to the Treasury, ownership was seen as control by the Square Mile.  Yet while protecting Britain’s market infrastructure remains just as important today, what has changed is the sheer complexity of the world in which the City now operates.\n\nToday, investment banks have to manage sprawling operational estates across numerous countries. This has created several challenges. Firstly, boardroom attention has been consumed to such an extent that focus is diverted away from other pressing issues. A huge amount of capital has also been absorbed which has led to a level of operational risk on a scale few could have anticipated back in 2006.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFree Thinking - City AM Opinion Newsletter\nGet weekly sparky insight and expert commentary on markets, entrepreneurship and innovation from City AM’s Opinion Editor, delivered every Saturday.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nScaling AIIn addition, regulation has become exponentially more demanding following the 2008 crash. And if this wasn’t enough, technology investment cycles have accelerated and cloud migration remains painstakingly complicated. Oh, and now there is the not so small matter of AI exposing the limitations of fragmented infrastructure built for a different time.Often portrayed as something banks can simply layer over existing systems to boost productivity, AI actually only thrives in scalable and well governed environments. The trouble is that many banks operate in precisely the opposite environments because their operating systems have become somewhat disorderly through acquisitions, sticking plaster tech decisions, and underinvestment that has left them managing multiple versions of what are often fundamentally the same platforms. Therefore, before AI can harbour any hope of reshaping investment banking as we know it, the boring infrastructure beneath it must be rebuilt.That is why this City as we know it is moving towards a fundamentally different model. Banks are increasingly externalising infrastructure they once insisted on owning. This is not outsourcing in the traditional sense, more the industrialisation of financial market infrastructure. A world in which technology operations, cloud, governance and automation are delivered through shared platforms serving multiple institutions rather than individual firms. 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