International Financial Services London

TheCityUK incorporated the functions of the International Financial Services London in 2010. A City of London Corporation news release in May 2010 said:TheCityUK lays out vision for financial services industry, May 2010
:"IFSL is determined to contribute to the effectiveness of TheCityUK by bringing to it the support of its broad‐based membership of financial services businesses along with its well‐established capability for delivering international promotional activity and publishing research to spread awareness of the international performance of the sector."
==History==
International Financial Services London (IFSL) (formerly British Invisibles), claims to provide (through its LOTIS (Liberalisation Of Trade In Services) Committee) an effective interface between the private sector and government on a wide range of business, regulatory and market access issues. More specifically, the organisation is said to have close links with government departments, in particular HM Treasury, British Trade International, the Department of Trade and Industry and the Foreign and Commonwealth Office. The overall goal is to speed up liberalisation of trade in services, which is currently regulated by the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS). The growing economic importance of services, and the associated business opportunities this opens up, explains the UK government's support for GATS.
Two IFSL working groups, the Liberalisation of Trade in Services (LOTIS) Committee and the High-Level LOTIS Group, constitute a veritable corporate-state alliance.
==People==
*Andrew Buxton
===President===
HRH The Duke of Kent
===Chairman===
*Lord Levene of Portsoken KBE, Chairman, Lloyd's, London
===Executive Directors===
*Mr Edward Whitley, Chief Executive Officer
*Mrs Tracy-Ann Hilton, Company Secretary
===Non-Executive Directors===
*Mr Andrew Cahn, Chief Executive, UK Trade and Investment
*Mr Michael Cassidy CBE, Deputy, City of London Corporation
*Mr Alastair Clark, Adviser to the Governor, Bank of England
*Mr John Griffith-Jones, UK Senior Partner, KPMG
*Mr Stephen Haddrill, Director General, ABI
*Sir Thomas Harris KBE CMG FRSA, Vice Chairman, Standard Chartered Bank plc
*Sir Brian Ivory CBE FRSE, HBOS plc
*Mrs Angela Knight CBE, Chief Executive Designate, British Bankers Association, director of LogicaCMG
*Mr Marshall Levine, Partner, Marshall F Levine & Associates
*Mr Ian Luder, Chairman of the Finance Committee, City of London Corporation
*Mr Anthony Nelson, Vice Chairman, Corporate & Investment Banking, Citigroup
*Sir Adam Ridley, Chairman of the Trustees, The Equitas Trust
*Mr Andre Villeneuve, Chairman, Euronext.liffe
===Observers===
*Mr Clive Maxwell, Director, Financial Services, HM Treasury
*Mr Dominic Jermey, Director, International Sectors Group,UKTI
*Mr Martin Donnelly CMG, Director-General, Economic, FCO
==Members==
ABC International Bank Plc 	 www.arabbanking.com |
Aberdeen Asset Management plc 	www.aberdeen-asset.com |
Advent UK Ltd 	www.advent-uk.co.uk |
AIG Central Europe & CIS 	www.aig.co.uk |
Allen & Overy LLP 	www.allenovery.com |
AMEC plc 	www.amec.com |
AON Limited 	www.aon.com/uk/en/ |
APCIMS 	www.apcims.co.uk |
ASEAN Regional Business Forum 	www.aseandirectory.net |
Association of British Insurers 	www.abi.org.uk |
Baker & McKenzie 	www.bakernet.com |
Bank of England 	www.bankofengland.co.uk |
Bar Council of England & Wales 	|
Barclays Bank plc 	www.barclays.co.uk/ |
Baring Asset Management 	www.baring-asset.com
Beauchamp & Savrassov Ltd 	www.bsav.com
Berwin Leighton Paisner 	www.blplaw.com
Bevan Brittan LLP 	www.bevanbrittan.com
BMS Associates Limited 	www.bmands.co.uk
British Arab Commercial Bank 	www.bacb.co.uk
British Insurance Brokers' Association 	www.biba.org.uk
British Water 	www.britishwater.co.uk
Calyon 	www.calyon.com
Cass Business School 	www.cass.city.ac.uk
Centre for Effective Dispute Resolution 	www.cedr.co.uk
Chamber of Shipping 	www.british-shipping.org
Chown Dewhurst LLP 	www.chowndewhurst.com
Citigroup 	www.citigroup.com
City of London 	www.cityoflondon.gov.uk
Clifford Chance LLP 	www.cliffordchance.com
Cluttons 	www.cluttons.com
Clyde & Co 	www.clydeco.com
Compass Consulting 	
Confederation of British Industry 	www.cbi.org.uk
Covington & Burling 	www.cov.com
Cubitt Consulting Ltd 	www.cubitt.com
Deloitte & Touche LLP 	www.deloitte.com
Denton Wilde Sapte 	www.dentonwildesapte.com
DLA Piper UK LLP 	www.dla.com
Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein 	www.drkw.com
Dundas & Wilson LLP 	www.dundas-wilson.com
EDS 	www.eds.com
Euronext.liffe 	www.liffe.com
Eversheds LLP 	www.eversheds.com
Fasken Martineau DuMoulin LLP 	www.fasken.com
Fidelity International 	www.fidelity.co.uk
Field Fisher Waterhouse 	www.ffw.com
Financial Services for Eastern Europe 	www.fsee.co.uk
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer 	www.freshfields.com
Goldman Sachs International 	www.gs.com
Grant Thornton LLP 	www.grant-thornton.co.uk
Granville Stephenson 	www.gs-fs.com/index.asp
HBOS plc 	www.hbosplc.com
Herbert Smith LLP 	www.herbertsmith.com
ICE Futures 	www.theice.com
Ince & Co 	www.ince.co.uk
Inframation Limited 	www.infraresearch.com
ING 	www.ing.com/
Institute of Financial Services 	www.ifslearning.com
Integrated Water Resources International 	
International Capital Market Association Ltd 	www.icmacentre.rdg.ac.uk
International Capital Partnerships 	
International Underwriting Association of London 	www.iua.co.uk
Investment Management Association 	www.investmentuk.org
Jasper Capital Ltd 	www.jaspercapital.co.uk
Jersey Finance Limited 	www.jerseyfinance.je
John Laing 	www.laing.com
JPMorgan 	www.jpmorganfleming.com/portal.asp
Key Trust Company Limited 	www.key-trust.com/
KPMG 	www.kpmg.co.uk
Latham & Watkins 	www.lw.com
Leeds Financial Services Initiative Ltd 	www.leedsfinancialservices.org.uk
Linklaters 	www.linklaters.com
Lloyd's 	www.lloyds.com
Lloyds TSB Group plc 	www.lloydstsb.com
London Chamber of Commerce & Industry 	www.londonchamber.co.uk
London Court of International Arbitration 	www.lcia-arbitration.com
London First 	www.london-first.co.uk
London Metal Exchange Limited 	www.lme.co.uk
London Metropolitan University 	www.londonmet.ac.uk/london-office
London Stock Exchange 	www.londonstockexchange.com
Lovells 	www.lovells.com
MacDougall Arts Ltd 	
Macquarie Bank Ltd 	www.macquarie.com.au
Marsh Limited 	www.marsh.co.uk
Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw LLP 	www.roweandmaw.co.uk
McGrigors 	www.mcgrigors.com
MerchantBridge & Co Limited 	www.mbih.com
*Merrill Lynch International Group plc 	www.ml.com
Metdist Trading Limited 	www.metdist.com
Mobsby Assocatiates Limited/PPP Solutions Limited 	www.mobsbyassociates.com
Morgan Stanley & Co. International plc 	www.morganstanley.com/
National Association of Pension Funds 	www.napf.co.uk
Nomura International plc 	www.nomura.co.uk
Norddeutsche Landesbank 	www.nordlb.com
Norton Rose 	www.nortonrose.com
Nymex Europe Limited 	
Pinsent Masons 	www.pinsentmasons.com
PricewaterhouseCoopers 	www.pwcglobal.com
Pro-Manchester 	www.pro-manchester.org.uk
Prudential plc 	www.prudential.co.uk
Reuters Limited 	www.reuters.com
Royal & SunAlliance Insurance Group plc 	www.royalsunalliance.com
RSM Robson Rhodes LLP 	www.rsmi.co.uk
Scott Wilson Railways 	
Scottish Financial Enterprise 	www.sfe.org.uk
Sector Skills Council for Financial Services 	www.fssc.org.uk
Securities and Investment Institute 	www.sii.org.uk
Serco Group plc 	www.serco.com
Simmons & Simmons 	www.simmons-simmons.com
SMi Group Ltd 	www.smi-online.co.uk
Standard Bank London Ltd 	www.standardbank.com
Standard Chartered Bank plc 	www.standardchartered.com
Stephenson Harwood 	www.shlegal.com
Strutt & Parker 	www.struttandparker.co.uk
TGC 	www.tgc.pl
The Association of Chartered Certified Accountants 	www.accaglobal.com
The Baltic Exchange Ltd 	www.balticexchange.com
The Chartered Institute of Arbitrators 	www.arbitrators.org
The Chartered Institute of Arbitrators 	www.arbitrators.org
The Chartered Institute of Management Accountants 	www.cimaglobal.com
The Chartered Insurance Institute 	www.cii.co.uk
The Commercial Bar Association (COMBAR) 	www.combar.com
The Futures & Options Association 	www.foa.co.uk
The Greek Shipping Co-operation Committee 	
The Institute of Chartered Accountants of England & Wales 	www.icaew.co.uk
The International Securities Consultancy Ltd 	www.isc-global.com
The Japan Society 	www.japansociety.org.uk
The Law Society of England & Wales 	www.lawsociety.org.uk
The PBN Company 	www.pbnco.com
The PPP Club 	
Today Translations 	
Trowers & Hamlins 	www.trowers.com
UBS 	www.ubswarburg.com/
United Insurance Brokers Ltd 	www.uib.co.uk
Willis Group Limited 	www.willis.com
Withers 	www.withers.co.uk
==Contacts==
IFSL
7th Floor
1-2 Bank Buildings
Princes Street
London, EC2R 8EU
United Kingdom
Tel: +44 (0)20 7213 9100
Fax: +44 (0)20 7213 9130
http://www.ifsl.org.uk
==References==
Category: Financial sector lobbying
Category:Corporate Lobby Groups