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Financial Services weekly highlights—23 August 2018

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Published on: 23 August 2018

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Table of contents

Brexit
No deal Brexit: Technical notice on banking, insurance and other financial services
Department for Exiting the EU issues framework for financial services for the UK-EU partnership
HM Treasury publishes draft SI on capital requirements
Speak To EU regulators about Brexit, FCA urges city firms
Regulated activities
FCA consults on fees for regulation of claims management companies
Financial Conduct Authority updates
FCA's regulatory round up for August 2018
Prudential requirements

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Article summary

Welcome to the weekly Financial Services highlights from the Financial Services team for the week ending 23 August 2018. 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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