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Bank of England Adapts Bank Stress Test for Pandemic Era
By Huw Jones
January 20, 2021, Reuters
The Bank of England’s health check on banks this year will seek to ensure that Britain’s big lenders, including HSBC, and Barclays, can …
Market Questions SMCR’s Efficiency
By Alice Tchernookova
January 19, 2021, Practice Insight from IFLR
More than four years have passed since the introduction of the Senior Managers and Certification Regime (SMCR), and although the …
Brexit Finance Talks Get Technical With Broader Progress Elusive
By Harry Wilson
January 17, 2021, Bloomberg
As with many meetings these days, the UK and EU’s latest negotiations on financial services began with a video conference call Friday. Unlike …
City of London Bosses Warn Against Post-Brexit Deregulation
By Daniel Thomas
January 17, 2021, Financial Times
City of London bosses have urged the UK government to tread carefully after it promised sweeping post-Brexit deregulation, arguing that the focus …
EU ‘Not Punishing’ UK Financial Services Sector, London Envoy Insists
By George Parker, Jim Brunsden, and Mure Dickie
January 19, 2021, Financial Times
Brussels is “not punishing” the City of London by withholding key regulatory rulings that would allow UK …
Brussels Says It Won’t Be Rushed on City of London Access to EU
By Huw Jones
January 19, 2021, Reuters
EU Financial Services Commissioner Mairead McGuinness said on Tuesday that Brussels would not grant Britain’s financiers access to the bloc before assessing the …
ESMA Issues Guidelines on Reverse Solicitation
By Bilal Jafar
January 13, 2021, Finance Magnates
The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) addressed the issues related to a few questionable operations by the companies around reverse solicitation …
EU Needs ‘Masterplan’ to Grab Euro Finance From London
By Huw Jones
January 18, 2021, Reuters
The European Union needs a “masterplan” to move euro financial services from London to the bloc if it wants to expand the single …
French Regulator Questions Need for Share Trading Equivalence
By Samuel Wilkes
January 15, 2021, Risk
A senior French markets regulator has questioned the need for offering third countries an equivalence determination under European Union share trading rules, after …
Incredibly Unlikely Equivalence Will Be Granted: Aquis CEO
Alasdair Haynes, chief executive officer at Aquis Exchange Ltd., discusses “equivalence” for the city of London and what it will do for business. He speaks on “Bloomberg Markets: European Open.”…
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