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  • Emerging markets have had a torrid time over the past month and investors are understandably requiring higher new issue premiums. Issuers, for the most part, are unwilling to pay up, but bankers say that issuers will regret not taking advantage of the window afforded by the next two weeks.
  • The next few months in the run-up to Brexit will bring upheaval for debt capital markets and syndicate teams at London’s investment banks, as they work out which roles will have to be done from the European Union and which staff to move. But the pressure will not cease on March 29, as national regulators have considerable scope to compel banks to relocate jobs. Jon Hay reports.
  • EU authorities are allergic to complex financial products — except when they solve a problem for the EU.
  • Between sleeping and waking, there is a middle phase: you realise it’s time to get up, but can’t quite bear to admit you need to get out of bed. London’s debt capital markets teams are in that zone. Brexit’s alarm has sounded, but few are eager to haul themselves into the cold air of Frankfurt or Paris.
  • Huatai Securities, the Chinese asset management business, has filed an intention to float document for a $500m London listing of global depositary receipts, the first under the new Shanghai-London Stock Connect segment of the London Stock Exchange.
  • Around $100bn of equity and debt capital left emerging markets in the third quarter, according to a report from Capital Economics, but some bankers expect flows to receive a lift in early 2019 when Saudi Arabia is added to the MSCI emerging market indices.