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Lexis®PSL Financial Services weekly highlights—14 July 2016

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Published on: 14 July 2016

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Welcome to the weekly Financial Services highlights from the Lexis®PSL Financial Services team for the week ending 14 July 2016. This week’s edition of Financial Services highlights includes (1) updates following the UK referendum result to leave the European Union, (2) updates from various law makers and regulatory bodies including the Chancellor of the Exchequer, HM Treasury, the European Committee on Economic and Montetary Affairs, the EBA, ESMA, EIOPA, FPC and the CMA, (3) updates from the Financial Conduct Authority, (4) details of documents published under the MiFID II framework, (5) details of requirements affecting how firms are prudentially regulated, (6) updates relating to financial crime, crowdfunding and redress (7) details of new requirements made under the Benchmark Regulation, Market Abuse Regulation and other requirements affecting markets, (8) updates relating to the investment management and retail banking sectors (9) details of publications that affect the insurance and payments sectors, (10) updates from other practice areas and (11) latest cases affecting the financial services regulatory...

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