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  • Hong Kong’s Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) is planning to bring in sweeping changes to rules governing equity and bond deals, requiring syndicate teams to be fixed earlier and fee structures to be disclosed. The moves have divided bankers. Jonathan Breen and Morgan Davis report.
  • New Horizon Health, a medical device manufacturer, has scooped up HK$2.04bn ($263.4m) from its IPO after strong institutional investor demand pushed pricing up to the top of the marketed range.
  • Nominative determinism has come up in Taipan before. But not everyone can love thy fate.
  • TV Azteca, the broadcaster owned by Mexico’s third richest man Ricardo Salinas Pliego, missed a coupon payment on a $400m bond on Tuesday, leaving some concerned about the implications for other Grupo Salinas-controlled bond issuers.
  • First Abu Dhabi Bank, the largest bank in the UAE, debuted in the euro market on Tuesday, selling a bond that was more than twice subscribed just a week after it entered the sterling market.
  • Investec Bank plc, the London and Johannesburg-listed subsidiary of South African banking group Investec, came to the euro bond market on Wednesday to raise debt.