• The London Stock Exchange Group appears poised to win regulatory approval for its $27 billion buyout of data giant Refinitiv
• The EU and UK finally agree a Brexit deal but the agreement does not include regulatory equivalence for financial services
• ESMA reveals details of cyberattack on Deutsche Börse in algo-trading review; plans to look at impact of outages
• FESE lambasts EU-backed consolidated tape report
• EU lawmakers agree to loosen MiFID II unbundling rules
• Global regulatory umbrella agency IOSCO takes up the market-data mantle