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Financial Services weekly highlights—25 March 2021

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Published on: 25 March 2021

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Welcome to the weekly Financial Services highlights from the Financial Services team for the week ending 18 March 2021. 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 departure from the EU, (2) news items relating to coronavirus (COVID-19), (3) updates from UK regulators, (4) updates from EU and international regulators, (5) updates from industry bodies and market participants, (6) new and updated content and (7) dates for your diary from Financial Services.

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