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Joint Statement on the U.S.-UK Financial Innovation Partnership Meeting | U.S. Department of the Treasury

Joint Statement on the U.S.-UK Financial Innovation Partnership
Meeting
August 6, 2020

WASHINGTON – U.S. and UK participants in the U.S.-UK Financial Innovation Partnership
(FIP) met virtually on August 5, 2020, to exchange views on topics of mutual interest as part
of their ongoing partnership.
The Regulatory and Commercial Pillars of the FIP met jointly to discuss deepening U.S.-UK
ties in financial innovation. The U.S. participants included o icials from the U.S. Department
of the Treasury and the U.S. Department of Commerce. Participants from the UK included
representatives of Her Majesty’s Treasury (HMT) and the UK Department for International
Trade.
In addition, the U.S. Department of the Treasury and HMT co-chaired a discussion of the
Regulatory Pillar of the FIP, engaging on topics including digital payments, operational
resilience, cross-border testing of innovative financial services, and regulatory and
supervisory technology. U.S. participants included sta from independent regulatory
agencies, including: the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, Federal Reserve
Bank of New York, Commodity Futures Trading Commission, Federal Deposit Insurance
Corporation, Securities and Exchange Commission, and O ice of the Comptroller of the
Currency. UK participants included representatives of HMT, the Bank of England, and the
Financial Conduct Authority. Participants intend to continue to engage on these topics, as
well as other topics of mutual interest, in support of the U.S.-UK Financial Regulatory
Working Group meeting later this year.
The Commercial Pillar, led by the U.S. Department of Commerce and the UK Department for
International Trade, engaged in discussions on bilateral market access issues, connections
between financial technology firms and financial institutions, and the forthcoming U.S.
financial services trade mission to the UK in June 2021.
Participants acknowledged the importance of the ongoing partnership in monitoring and
analyzing trends in global financial innovation, as well as being an integral component of the
U.S.-UK financial services cooperation. The FIP was inaugurated last year at the Financial
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Regulatory Working Group as a means of boosting U.S.-UK engagement in financial
innovation issues. The inaugural FIP statement can be found here.

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