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In this round-up, the China Banking and Insurance Regulatory Commission (CBIRC) put pressure on banks to provide more private sector financing, the US trade representative said he was not yet satisfied with China’s trade promises and the Hong Kong Stock Exchange (HKEX) planned to increase cross-border capital market deals. -
Index provider MSCI will increase the weight of China A-shares in its flagship emerging market index from 5% to 20%. The move will happen over three phases and be completed by November 2019, the company announced on Thursday.
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Hong Kong’s stock exchange operator is planning to attract more companies from the Asia Pacific region to list in Hong Kong, as well boosting its Stock Connect schemes with China. The moves should help cement its position as a global fundraising hub, according to a strategic plan published Thursday.
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In this round-up, China’s benchmark CSI300 index saw its biggest daily rise in three years after trade negotiations and deleveraging boosted investor sentiment, service imports and exports rose in 2018 and a Bloomberg survey indicated Hong Kong and Singapore investors are optimistic on Chinese onshore bonds.
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A group of nine NGOs, trade unions and other civil society groups have got together to produce an independent white paper setting out in detail how they believe the European Union’s Sustainable Finance Action Plan should progress. It calls on the EU to push ahead with the Plan, only some of whose targets have been acted on so far, and to take it further and deeper.
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Christine Lagarde, head of the International Monetary Fund, warned politicians on Thursday not to roll back banking regulations established in the wake of the financial crisis, as she highlighted a spike in financial pay. She also discussed ways of making finance more sustainable in its outcomes, and how fintech could improve inclusivity.
