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  • The Autorité de Marchés Financieres (AMF) has decided not to lengthen a ban on short selling, but some market participants who opposed the action see it returning when extreme volatility next strikes the markets.
  • JP Morgan announced a new set of leaders for its underwriting, coverage and M&A business on Monday, following a series of promotions in February.
  • France's Financial Markets Authority (AMF) is weighing whether or not to extend a ban on short selling this week, as industry bodies warned the ban has harmed markets.
  • China has taken a long-awaited step towards opening its real estate investment trust (Reit) market, publishing rules for a pilot programme. The regulators are understandably starting small, but the guidelines don’t do enough for companies that need to list Reits the most.
  • UniCredit began the year with a new template for growth but is now simply trying to help support clients through the crisis, while hoping that the deeper relationships being forged will endure, writes David Rothnie.
  • As a crucial middleman in the oil business, Trafigura has had to cope with concerns about the creditworthiness of some of its counterparts, and unprecedented volatility in the oil price that saw the West Texas Intermediate (WTI) contract turn negative at the end of April. Christophe Salmon, the company’s chief financial officer, explained how the company has coped with the crisis, and how its funding approach, based on deep banking relationships and a secured financing structure, proved resilient to the chaos around it.