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A year ago, Hong Kong’s stock exchange (HKEX) added a new chapter to its regulations, allowing pre-revenue biotechnology companies to list. The historic move has turned the city into the biotech IPO hub of Asia. But its fortune could change if the Mainland’s new Nasdaq-style Shanghai tech board, which offers similar pre-revenue concessions, stems the flow of its primarily Chinese issuers.
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China made big strides developing its green bond market last year, moving closer to international standards and producing a volume of issuance that placed it only behind the United States. But this year, the market has gone backwards. What has happened to Chinese green bond issuance?
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Luckin Coffee is brewing excitement in the US equity market after it confirmed plans for an IPO this week and filed a draft prospectus with the Securities and Exchange Commission. But while the Chinese coffee chain is being hailed as a major competitor to Starbucks, there is reason to think that assessment carries a lot of froth.
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Ray Dalio’s missive on reforming capitalism proposes making the US more egalitarian: this might be needed to avoid slowing the economy and even to avert a collapse in the economic system itself. But investors such as Dalio are not so keen on putting capital into the one region in the world where capitalism and equality have found an easier marriage.
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If the architects behind the complicated world of bank resolution and prudential capital regulation have proved one thing, it is that the devil is not always in the detail. Sometimes labels matter more.
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A softening in Ukrainian bond spreads may prompt the country's debt management officials to drag their feet over issuing its next public bond. It would be better for them to get moving.