This week's edition of Financial Services weekly highlights includes: ESAs to set up cyber co-ordination framework; PSR publishes policy statements on reporting APP scam data; FSB consults on legal, supervisory and regulatory frictions in cross-border payments; plus dates for your diary over the coming week.

This week's edition of Financial Services weekly highlights includes: FCA publishes Quarterly Consultation Paper No. 47; FCA publishes Consumer Duty support outcome review findings; Commission adopts implementing regulation amending ITS with regard to updates to benchmark portfolios and reporting requirements under EU CRD IV; plus dates for your diary over the coming week.

This week's edition of Financial Services weekly highlights includes: FCA opens consultations on cryptoasset regulation; ECB publishes proposals to simplify EU European regulatory, supervisory and reporting framework; BIS bulletin examines state of play of cross-border payments enhancement; plus dates for your diary.

This week's edition of EU Law weekly highlights includes the publication of the programme for the Danish Presidency of the Council of the EU for 1 July to 31 December 2025, the adoption of a new State aid framework for the clean industrial transition, the announcement of plans to introduce an EU Quantum Act in 2026, and the launch of a consultation on the extension of the EU carbon border adjustment mechanism to downstream products. In addition this week, the Parliamentary Committee on Internal Market and Consumer Protection adopted proposed measures to address the rise in substandard goods entering the EU via e-commerce and proposed reforms to the EU Package Travel Directive, the Council and the Parliament reached political agreement on changes to EU alternative dispute resolution rules, the Commission launched parallel consultations on an EU Industrial Maritime Strategy and EU Ports Strategy, and a delegated act has been published under the EU Digital Services Act establishing rules for researcher access to internal data from very large online platforms and search engines. Finally, this weeks highlights include an analysis of the interplay between the Medical Devices Regulation/In Vitro Diagnostic Medical Devices Regulation and the EU AI Act and an analysis of an Advocate-General opinion considering the pastiche exception under the EU InfoSoc Directive.

A psychological or psychiatric injury or illness.

ARCHIVED: This Practice Note has been archived and is not maintained. This Practice Note is a summary of the key legal developments of relevance to personal injury and clinical negligence practitioners as of July 2025. For developments that pre-date this horizon scanner, reference should be made to PI and Clinical Negligence horizon scanning and key cases—overview. Key PI and clinical negligence developments The personal injury discount rate—a review At the tail end of 2024, the Lord Chancellor, Shabana Mahmood MP, announced the results of her five-month long review of the discount rate, first announced in July 2024. One month on from the new +0.5% discount rate coming into force, Thea Wilson (barrister at 12 King’s Bench Walk) reviews the impact on cases of the new discount rate, the reaction from those representing claimants and defendants, and the implications of the change for legal practitioners. See News Analysis: The personal injury discount rate—a review. MoJ announces reduction in CFO’s interest rates The Ministry of Justice (MoJ) has announced a decrease

This week's edition of Financial Services weekly highlights includes: Spring Budget 2024—key Financial Services announcements; Financial Services and Markets Act 2023 (Commencement No 5) Regulations 2024; FCA Dear CEO letter warns Annex 1 firms of AML failings, and FCA publishes Dear CEO letter on its asset management & alternatives supervisory strategy.

This week's edition of Financial Services weekly highlights includes: the Supreme Court’s decision in R v Hayes; R v Palombo [2025] UKSC 29, which quashes convictions related to LIBOR and EURIBOR submissions; FCA reports assessing the state of the UK retail insurance market and outlining actions for firms, government and regulators to address identified shortcomings; and the FCA consultation on new deferred payment credit regulation; plus dates for your diary over the coming week.

This week's edition of Financial Services weekly highlights includes: Kirstene Baillie’s video on being sufficiently innovative in the asset management sector; PRA fines HSBC £57m for breaches of the Depositor Protection Rules; UK government finds EEA states equivalent under the Overseas Funds Regime; Council of EU publishes final compromise text of Solvency II amendment, and HMT and BoE publish their response to digital pound consultation and outline next steps, plus dates for your diary over the coming week.

Any injury calculated to interfere with the health or comfort of the victim. It does not need to be permanent but it must be more than merely transient.

means an event, series of events or circumstance arising from the physical impacts of Climate Change that is either Pan-terra or Epi-terra in scope and prevents a party from performing its obligations under this agreement [including an obligation to pay money], and includes but is not limited to: (a) unavailability of water, clean air or other Natural Capital required by a party to manufacture or supply the [products OR services]; (b) damage to a party’s premises, including flooding due to sea level rise or an increased intensity of rain and storms; (c) disruption of logistics and transport systems relied on for the supply and distribution of key inputs or outputs; (d) unsafe working conditions due to heat stress, extreme weather or increased disease; (e) damage or disruption to food supply chains, housing or transport affecting the availability of food, shelter or transport for workers; (f) unavailability of insurance; (g) unavailability of workers, and (h) [insert other adverse events].

Welcome to the weekly Financial Services highlights from the Financial Services team for the week ending 6 December 2018. 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.