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Lexis®PSL Banking & Finance weekly highlights—7 May 2015

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Published on: 07 May 2015

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Welcome to the weekly Banking & Finance highlights from the Lexis®PSL Banking & Finance team for the week ending 7 May 2015. This week’s edition of Banking & Finance highlights includes (1) Charles Bezzant and Aselle Djumabaeva-Wood at Hemlins consider recent trends in relation to real estate finance case law, (2) BAFT and ITFA produce legal opinion for new regulatory requirements on trade finance risk, (3) European Commission approves extension of SFIL/CAFFIL activities to financing of export credit loans, (4) ESMA lists recognised third-country CCPs, (5) ISDA publishes updated derivatives compliance calendar, (6) ESMA releases final guidelines clarifying the definition of commodity derivatives under MiFID I, (7) EBA updates report on the monitoring of Additional Tier 1 capital instruments issued by EU institutions, (8) updates from the Lexis®PSL Commercial, Dispute Resolution, Environment, Property and Restructuring & Insolvency, and (9) a list of cases reported by the Lexis®PSL Banking & Finance team this week.

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