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Banking & Finance weekly highlights—2 May 2019

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Published on: 02 May 2019

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LIBOR
SONIA swaps majority of transactions in association’s quarterly review
Lending
LMA publishes results of Developing Markets Survey for 2019
Security
FMLC responds to proposal for a regulation on the law applicable to the third-party effects of assignments of claims
Updates to three HM Land Registry practice guides
Trade finance
European Commission consults on need for updating short-term export credit rules
Derivatives

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Article summary

This week’s edition of the Banking & Finance highlights includes the results of the LMA’s developing markets survey for 2019, the FMLC responds to a proposal for a regulation on the law applicable to the third-party effects of assignments of claims and HM Land Registry updates three of its practice guides.

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