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Financial Services weekly highlights—28 March 2019

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Published on: 28 March 2019

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Table of contents

Brexit
FCA director on Brexit risks and the UK’s future relationship with Europe
FCA develops UK Benchmark Register for no-deal Brexit
FCA extends TPR until the end of 11 April 2019
ESMA registers UnaVista TRADEcho B.V. as a trade repository
Hard Brexit could put chinks in UK’s financial crime armor
Brexit legislation
Delegated Regulations granting post-Brexit exemptions to BoE published in Official Journal
Investment Exchanges, Clearing Houses and Central Securities Depositories (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019
Mortgage Credit (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019

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Article summary

Welcome to the weekly Financial Services highlights from the Financial Services team for the week ending 28 March 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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