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  • While the banking sector has pushed for capital requirements to be tweaked to favour green lending, European Central Bank vice president Luis de Guindos said on Thursday that equity funding might prove more appropriate than this for funding new climate technologies. On the same day, the head of supervision at the ECB said capital relief for green assets must be based on evidence.
  • The successful IPO of Française des Jeux, the French gaming company that runs the national lottery, this week gave encouragement to government plans to privatise more state assets. Sam Kerr reports.
  • The retirement of Samir Assaf, HSBC’s long-serving head of global banking and markets (GBM), paves the way for a long overdue restructuring of that division. This will test the bank’s new-look management team.
  • Global banks working on Saudi Aramco’s IPO have dismissed claims that they are effectively sidelined and insist they are engaging international investors, despite the issuer’s decision not to roadshow outside the Gulf.
  • Alibaba Group Holding pulled off the year’s largest IPO this week, raising HK$88bn ($11.2bn) from its Hong Kong secondary listing. The company has given the stock exchange a much needed boost in morale, while signalling to other foreign-listed Chinese companies that they can come home. Jonathan Breen reports.
  • Czech consumer finance company Home Credit has shelved its potential Hong Kong IPO citing poor market conditions. The deal had been slated to raise up to $1bn.
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