The UK Insurance Sentiment Index 2024: Product and price
The UK Insurance Sentiment Index: Product & Price Edition delves into public sentiment towards General Insurance and Life & Pension insurance types.
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Store Openings and Closures 2024
A long-term view of openings and closures: a move towards stability?
Investors back bold moves as businesses face pressure to reinvent
Investors back bold moves as businesses face pressure to reinvent, scale emerging technology, upskill their workforce and manage climate risk. Explore the findings of our UK Investor Survey.
Women in Work 2025
The UK has slipped from 17th to 18th place, down from 10th in 2020 - the steepest post-pandemic decline amongst OECD countries - with Iceland, New Zealand and Luxembourg the best performing.
Scale | InsurTech (2025)
Our 2025 PwC Scale InsurTech Programme Cohort has launched and we are excited to be working with our 8 scale-ups, chosen from over 700+ companies, to help solve important problems for the Life and Retirement Insurance, and Wealth industries.
Retail Outlook
Discover the retail outlook for 2025 with our in-depth analysis of market trends, consumer behavior, and emerging technologies. Explore how retailers can ensure compliance, enhance their reputation and manage ESG and supply chain risks to secure growth.
What’s London’s role in driving growth across the UK?
Explore how London, a financial and cultural powerhouse, drives the UK's economic growth.
The Reinvention of Retail Banking: How focused business models can unlock value
UK Retail Banks are broad across many dimensions. Broad in terms of their offerings; the segments they serve and the products they provide. And broad in terms of the role they play in the value chain to fulfil that offering; banking remains one of the most vertically integrated industries.
Three ways to prepare now for effective CSRD workforce reporting
Many larger UK organisations are preparing for the CSRD but workforce data is often being overlooked. What steps should organisations take to make progress on workforce reporting?
Climate risk in non-life insurance: Strategic buy-in and complexity issues slow action
As climate-related events become more frequent and severe, non-life insurers are reassessing their exposure and approaches to climate change risk. Our market update reveals that while leading insurers are integrating climate risk considerations beyond regulatory requirements, technical complexity and strategic buy-in are slowing significant action.
Emerging Trends in Real Estate®: Europe 2025
This joint report by PwC and the Urban Land Institute provides an outlook on sustainability, operational real estate and growth in digital infrastructure across Europe.
PwC Consumer Sentiment Survey - Autumn 2024
After the biggest drop in over two years, consumer sentiment has reached 2024’s lowest level. While economic indicators remain strong, with inflation stable, real wages increasing and more interest cuts likely, this hasn’t translated into optimism among consumers.
The Framework for Growth and UK Financial Services
Securing economic growth will inevitably be a primary focus for the new government and a successful industrial strategy will need to put financial services as it’s heart.
FCA finds shortcomings in payments firms’ implementation of Consumer Duty
PwC’s summary of the FCA’s review findings of payments firms’ implementation of the Consumer Duty.
European non-core asset market update - Q3 2024
Despite the challenging marketing conditions, the first 9 months of 2024 proved to be very active with a number of very significant, mostly performing, portfolio transactions taking place.
Is it time to start discussing the future of UK GAAP for life insurers?
With IFRS for insurance contracts having moved on from IFRS 4 to IFRS 17, what is next for life insurers reporting under UK GAAP?
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