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Lexis®PSL Financial Services weekly highlights—7 April 2016

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Published on: 07 April 2016

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Welcome to the weekly Financial Services highlights from the Lexis®PSL Financial Services team for the week ending 7 April. This week’s edition of Financial Services highlights includes (1) latest Capital Markets Union developments (2) latest updates from the FCA and PRA, including the PRA Regulatory Digest and FCA Business Plan 2016/2017 (3) FCA publishes guidance on voluntary redress schemes (4) the FPC update of its Policy Statement describing its approach to setting the countercyclical capital buffer (5) the FCA sets out its proposed approach to new countercyclical buffer rate (6) the PRA launches a consultation on supervising building societies’ treasury and lending activities (7) ESMA updates EMIR, AIFMD and UCITS Q&As (8) ESMA publishes UCITS and AIFMD remuneration Guidelines(9) EIOPA consults on amendments for supervisory reporting templates and Guidelines on Reporting and Disclosure under Solvency II (10) the SRA amends consumer credit and authorisation Handbook rules (11) Delegated and Implementing Regulations supplementing MAR are published in the EU OJ (12) ESAs finalise KIDs for...

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