Brexit update for financial services firms - week ending 28 September 2018

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The week in outline:

The week was dominated by UK domestic politics. There were very few technical publications of interest to the financial services sector.

Publications from the RegZone Brexit news feed

Department for Exiting the EU: Gibraltar

The Department for Exiting the EU has published a very short statement from Dominic Raab with regard to his meeting with Fabian Picardo, the chief minister of Gibraltar, on 26 September 2018. The full statement can be accessed here.

HoC: Brexit unknowns (update)

This HoC library briefing paper considers the main "unknowns" around the Brexit process and the withdrawal agreement with the EU that is currently being negotiated, including the issue of data protection. The briefing paper can be accessed here.

CMS RegZone publishes weekly updates (available via email, on-line and via Twitter) on Brexit developments for financial services firms. These provide analysis and commentary on significant developments during the week in question. A daily digest of Brexit news (without analysis or commentary) is also available by email here and online via the RZ news wizard here (both of these can be filtered using the Brexit topic). Links to publications are contained in each update; publications released before the updates commenced in April 2018 can be found in a bibliography here. CMS RegZone publication ‘Where we stand’ provides an overview of the current position in a single report; this is updated regularly to take account of the key developments from the weekly updates.