{"id":716079,"date":"2026-01-23T20:38:14","date_gmt":"2026-01-23T20:38:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/716079\/"},"modified":"2026-01-23T20:38:14","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T20:38:14","slug":"britains-finance-and-trade-chiefs-to-join-keir-starmers-china-trip-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/716079\/","title":{"rendered":"Britain\u2019s finance and trade chiefs to join Keir Starmer\u2019s China trip \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cTechnical obstacles have so far prevented us from realizing Stock\u00a0Connect\u2019s\u00a0full potential,\u201d Alder said\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.fca.org.uk\/news\/speeches\/strengthening-uk-china-financial-partnership\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">in a speech in May last year.<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He pointed to the Memorandum of Understanding being developed between the FCA and China\u2019s National Financial Regulatory Administration as \u201ccritical to provide the mechanisms needed to share information swiftly, supervise firms effectively across borders, and promote market openness,\u201d with \u201cfast and efficient exchange of data [being] vital to manage the risks.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe goods wins are easier,\u201d said the senior business representative. \u201cSome of the service ones are more difficult. The issues that financial services firms have in China [are] around access to sensitive data and the transfer of money.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The U.K. also hopes to be the latest country to join China\u2019s visa-free list, which would enable British citizens to travel for short-term business trips, exchanges, or holidays without applying for a visa.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>There are 48 countries currently\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.visaforchina.cn\/SYD3_EN\/tongzhigonggao\/265975107544027136.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">on the list<\/a>, including France, Germany, Italy, Spain, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Australia, New Zealand, Japan, Saudi Arabia, Russia, and Sweden.<\/p>\n<p>The Treasury, Department for Business and Trade and FCA did not respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cTechnical obstacles have so far prevented us from realizing Stock\u00a0Connect\u2019s\u00a0full potential,\u201d Alder said\u00a0in a speech in May last&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":716080,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5018,3,4],"tags":[214071,768,748,1395,6215,2814,1305,393,7558,4884,475,806,807,2129,2441,1144,31929,60394,619,2444,712,811,1199,479,1201,16,15,6863,1764],"class_list":{"0":"post-716079","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-britain","8":"category-uk","9":"category-united-kingdom","10":"tag-ashley-alder","11":"tag-borders","12":"tag-britain","13":"tag-china","14":"tag-cooperation","15":"tag-data","16":"tag-electric-vehicles","17":"tag-england","18":"tag-financial-services","19":"tag-great-britain","20":"tag-imports","21":"tag-industry","22":"tag-keir-starmer","23":"tag-mark-carney","24":"tag-markets","25":"tag-northern-ireland","26":"tag-overcapacity","27":"tag-peter-kyle","28":"tag-rachel-reeves","29":"tag-regulatory","30":"tag-scotland","31":"tag-security","32":"tag-services","33":"tag-tariffs","34":"tag-trade","35":"tag-uk","36":"tag-united-kingdom","37":"tag-visas","38":"tag-wales"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115946344214783047","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/716079","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=716079"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/716079\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/716080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=716079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=716079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=716079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}