Amidst the pageantry of President Trump’s 2025 state visit to the UK, there are a number of crucial implications for US investment in Britain.
Two market sectors poised to benefit are finance and tech. The UK-US ‘golden corridor’ in financial services has seen big US firms arrive in numbers, whilst in the other direction, British banks such as Barclays have beefed up their US presence. If you are investment planning in Cheshire and the wider North West, S&P Global is investing £4 million in its Manchester office.
Across the Irish Sea, Citi Bank and Bank of America have been instrumental in turning Belfast into a global financial hub. Asset manager Blackstone has also announced it is committing over £100 billion to UK investments over the next 10 years. If you are looking at logistics, it recently completed a £490 million takeover for Warehouse REIT.
In tech, the two countries have agreed a US-UK Tech Prosperity Deal. This will see £31 billion of American investment in AI, quantum computing and nuclear energy. Companies such as Google, Microsoft, OpenAI and Invidia are all onboard. The tech industry is keen to move forward with AI infrastructure research and development, building new data centres, deploying new processors and working on the UK’s first supercomputer.
At a time of deep geopolitical tensions, the UK is conscious of the importance of retaining good transatlantic relations. There may be some questions regarding technological independence, but the government remains keen for more joint fintech projects as a vote of confidence in British innovation.
