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172nd Brussels 4 Breakfast - 22 April 2021
Why you should
watch:
The Commission's recommendation
that the UK should be excluded from the Lugano Convention is big (and bad)
news. More evidence that Brussels has little interest in accommodating the UK -
and still less in doing a deal to bail out the City. That will also come up
when CRD6 is published - even though it is really the EU's response to the
external shock of Basel3 (which also, and equally, hits Britain). Other issues:
the EU's push for instant payments, talk of an ECB digital currency, and lots
to worry about on the ESG side.
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Video update
on the Brexit 'hit' to the City of London
- E - Equity, derivatives, bonds
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- Equivalence – already in the dustbin of history?
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The famous MoU – does it achieve anything
significant?
· - English law and securities – remarkably boring
but may turn out to be vital
· - “Kind strangers” needed to fund the biggest
(even before the Brexit hit!) current account deficit amongst major countries.
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12 February - Blog "Brexit: Ending the City’s Dominance of European Finance?"
19 February - video: Well-received conversation with the Director of the Federal
Trust, Brendan Donnelly, on "Brexit: Ending the City’s Dominance of
European Finance?"
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