Insights

Welcome to this week’s update on the fast-moving world of global trade, digital policy, and transatlantic relations. Here’s what’s shaping the global agenda right now.

Today, (Feb 26th) HMT and DSIT unveiled their long-awaited guidance, outlining clearly that digital verification solutions certified under the Trust Framework, and appearing on the DVS register, can be reliably utilised to conduct AML checks.

See upcoming events, opportunities, news, and updates from techUK's International Trade Programme…

UK Research and Innovation has published its first AI Strategy, setting out a long-term plan backed by £1.6 billion to strengthen the UK’s AI research, skills and infrastructure. The framework outlines six priority areas aimed at advancing technology development, supporting responsible AI and translating scientific excellence into economic and societal benefit.

Guest blog by Mike Wild is Health SME and Advisory at Littlefish Group

This analysis examines what the Schools White Paper signals for the role of technology in education, highlighting infrastructure investment, data reform and AI as enablers of wider system change. It explores emerging demand across digital platforms, interoperability and inclusion, alongside structural reforms that may reshape procurement, governance and delivery expectations.

Guest blog by University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust (UHL), in partnership with St Vincents Consulting and Purple Beard

Read techUK's key outcomes from the AI Impact Summit, New Delhi.

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