Brexit News
Brexit News
15
Dec
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15
May
1 Introduction
It has been almost two and a half years since the United Kingdom signed its post-Brexit trade deal with the European Union (EU), which was expected to have multifaceted impacts on the UK economy. The EU-UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement (TCA) was signed on 30 December 2020 and came into effect provisionally on 1 January 2021. Leaving the EU’s Single Market and the EU Customs Union represented a profound change in the economic relationship. This change was expected...
02
May
The finish line for US dollar (USD) LIBOR transition at end-June 2023 is now less than three months away. There has been significant progress made to date, and market participants must continue to act in order to ensure an orderly transition and to support the foundations necessary for a sustainable and stable financial system going forward. Given the limited time ahead, the FSB stresses that it is critical that market participants act expeditiously to ensure that their legacy contracts...
16
Mar
Northern Ireland has long been one of the most under-invested regions of the UK. OCO Global's Executive Chairman Mark O’Connell speaks with Financial Times on the ‘transformative opportunity’ the Windsor Framework can provide.
Full article HERE.
Compliments of OCO Global - a member of the EACCNY.
03
Mar
After months of negotiations and weeks of rumours that the EU and UK were on the brink of a deal, Commission President, Ursula von der Leyen and UK Prime Minister, Rishi Sunak, announced this week that an agreement “in principle” on the Northern Ireland Protocol had been reached. Following weeks of technical talks, which were kept very secretive with no leaks emerging ahead of the announcement, the so-called “Windsor Framework” was announced on 27 February.
The newly announced Windsor Framework, which has been agreed...
02
Mar
Today, the European Commission and the Government of the United Kingdom reached a political agreement in principle on the Windsor Framework. This constitutes a comprehensive set of joint solutions aimed at addressing, in a definitive way, the practical challenges faced by citizens and businesses in Northern Ireland, thereby providing them with lasting certainty and predictability.
The joint solutions cover, amongst other things, new arrangements on customs, agri-food, medicines, VAT and excise, as well as specific instruments designed to ensure that...
28
Feb
Overview: There are two important developments. First, the stronger than expected February inflation reports from France and Spain have sparked a jump in European interest rates and the swaps market is beginning to price in a 4% terminal rate by the European Central Bank. The deposit rate is now at 2.50% and is widely expected to rise to 3.0% in the middle of next month. Second, a tentative agreement to resolve the dispute over the Northern Ireland protocol has...
13
Jan
Some progress was made in EU-UK relations this week as both sides came to an agreement on EU access to UK IT systems governing the movement of goods from Great Britain to Northern Ireland. Many have welcomed the move as a significant development in ongoing talks over the Northern Ireland Protocol and has provided some hope that further progress can be made ahead of the 25th anniversary of the Good Friday Peace Agreement in April.
The agreement was announced following a...