The UK and US have announced a new Transatlantic Taskforce for Markets of the Future, designed to deepen collaboration across capital markets, digital assets, and financial regulation.
It’s an ambitious step that represents a shared urgency. Both markets are under pressure to modernise financial infrastructure, manage digital-asset risk, and keep pace with technology-driven innovation.
For organisations operating out of London, New York, or across the broader transatlantic financial system, this is a pivotal moment.
What does it entail, and what does it mean for today’s risk and compliance functions? Broadgate’s consultants explore in more detail below.
A new framework for cooperation
Operating under the UK–US Financial Regulatory Working Group, the taskforce will deliver its initial findings within six months. Its agenda focuses on three priorities:
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Closer capital markets connectivity - Simplifying listings and cross-border investment pathways between London and New York.
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Practical alignment on digital-asset regulation - Developing shared ground on custody, trading, and tokenisation frameworks.
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A joint focus on innovation and resilience - Ensuring that financial services infrastructure evolves safely alongside emerging technologies.
From tokenised assets to AI-driven credit models, financial systems have become borderless in function but fragmented in rulebook.
This collaboration aims to close that gap and create an environment where innovation can move as freely as capital.
Implications for Risk and Compliance Talent
For risk, compliance, and digital-finance professionals, this marks a decisive moment.
Cross-jurisdiction expertise is rising in value:
The value of cross-jurisdictional experience is rising fast, and so is demand. Recruitment across London and New York increasingly focuses on professionals who can operationalise regulatory change across both markets.
Digital-asset fluency is moving up the agenda:
Even outside crypto-native firms, tokenisation and distributed-ledger infrastructure are reshaping treasury, settlement, and audit functions. Risk leaders who engage confidently with these technologies will influence policy, not just enforce it.
Public–private collaboration is accelerating:
Regulators and industry are now co-designing frameworks, pilot programmes, and sandboxes. This demands professionals who can balance innovation with accountability, bridging technical design and governance.
Data-driven control frameworks are becoming the norm:
With AI-enabled financial operations, firms need transparent, auditable data flows. The ability to design and test systems for traceability is now a baseline skill.
Digital Identity and Programmable Compliance
Beyond assets, the next wave of interoperability may extend to digital identity and compliance infrastructure.
AI-enabled verification tools are already transforming KYC and AML processes, but inconsistencies in digital identity frameworks remain a drag on cross-border operations.
If the taskforce can drive convergence here, firms could one day verify a counterparty across the Atlantic as easily as across the street, using shared, auditable, and privacy-preserving digital credentials.
The AI Dimension
As AI reshapes financial decision-making, regulators are beginning to supervise systems as much as institutions.
Shared standards on model transparency and data lineage will be vital if AI models trained in one jurisdiction are to operate safely in another.
It’s a natural extension of the regulatory divergence we explored earlier between the US and EU, but this time, there’s an opportunity to build common ground across the Atlantic.
Looking Ahead
As markets become programmable and regulation more collaborative, governance itself is evolving into a form of code: dynamic, data-driven, and co-created by industry.
The professionals who can interpret that shift, translating technical change into trusted systems, will define the next era of financial resilience.
Broadgate’s specialists are helping financial institutions build teams ready for this new regulatory era.
If your risk or compliance function is adapting to transatlantic change, connect Connor Nurse directly to discuss how we can help you shape the talent and capability needed for what’s next: Connor.nurse@broadgatesearch.com.