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Financial Services weekly highlights—19 December 2019

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Published on: 19 December 2019

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Table of contents

Brexit
Queen’s Speech 2019
Queen’s speech December 2019: Financial services elements
Brexit Bulletin—what does the general election result mean for Brexit?
Insurers likely to see wave of ‘disorderly Brexit’ claims
MiFID II
Regulation amending MiFID II, MAR and the Prospectus Regulation on the promotion of the use of SME growth markets published in OJ
EU financial-data tape could cover bonds, swaps, pre-trade quotes, official says
UK, EU and international regulators and bodies
FCA publishes Handbook Notice No. 72

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Article summary

Welcome to the weekly Financial Services highlights from the Financial Services team for the week ending 19 December 2019. This week’s edition of Financial Services highlights provides an aggregation of the news reported by the Lexis®PSL Financial Services team over the past week and includes (1) news items relating to the UK’s decision to leave the EU (2) updates from UK Regulators (3) updates from EU and International Regulators (4) updates from industry bodies and market participants (5) new and updated content and (6) dates for your diary from Financial Services.

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