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David Cameron’s opportunistic gamble in demanding regulatory concessions for UK financial services as a price for signing up to EU treaty change has failed spectacularly. The vetoed treaty will go ahead and EU regulations are unchanged. Politically, however, the UK’s link to Europe has been badly weakened. That is worrying news for the City of London.
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Should independent banks and brokers be invited to produce pre-IPO research? It has occasionally been done in the UK and the London Stock Exchange wants to see much more of it as it looks for ways to improve its IPO market. But perhaps it’s time for an altogether more fundamental rethink of pre-deal research.
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The frenzy in Hong Kong's new listing market has brought a welcome stream of business to syndicate bankers, and has given confidence to companies hoping to raise money. But the recent rally in equity markets should not sway bankers from telling companies the ugly truth: you still need to pay up to get deals done.
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Policymakers need to be careful about muddying the waters with their public debates over how to regulate banks. But at the same time, banks and markets must come to terms with the fact that regulation has to be dynamic to be effective.
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A mass downgrade of eurozone sovereigns, such as that threatened by Monday’s move by Standard & Poor’s to put 15 of them on CreditWatch negative, would certainly be dramatic. But will investors care?
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Everyone would love to see something solid come out of Friday’s summitry. But unblocking sovereign markets and restoring confidence means reaching a settlement that will last, not something that will start to fray at the edges at the first sign of democracy.