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Lexis®PSL Banking & Finance weekly highlights—12 May 2016

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Published on: 12 May 2016

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Welcome to the weekly Banking & Finance highlights from the Lexis®PSL Banking & Finance team for the week ending 12 May 2016. This week’s edition of Banking & Finance highlights includes (1) the LMA requests further information from HMRC on the exemption for qualifying private placements, (2) ISDA launches a protocol to ensure cross-border enforceability of stays on contractual termination rights, (3) ISDA reports on the impact of regulatory changes on interest rate swaps markets, (4) a new report highlights a recent decrease in activity in global OTC derivatives markets, (5) ESMA reports continuing high risk levels across securities markets, (6) the European Commission adopts regulatory technical standards supplementing the BRRD, (7) relevant updates from the Lexis®PSL Arbitration, Commercial, Dispute Resolution, Financial Services and Restructuring & Insolvency teams, (8) a list of cases reported by the Banking & Finance team this week, and (9) details of updated content and the latest Q&As published by the Lexis®PSL Banking & Finance team

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