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  • The Hong Kong Stock Exchange (HKEX) posted record revenue and profit last year, showing it grew its business despite being battered by political and economic headwinds.
  • Investors who have been longing for the EU Taxonomy of Sustainable Economic Activities to tell them what is green are now realising that its arrival could make life tricky. From the end of next year, they will have to start reporting how sustainable all their portfolios are. It could prove an enormous headache. But a tiny company has developed a tool it claims can cut out a lot of the worries investors face in working out how to comply.
  • Twelve of the largest global investment banks reduced their headcounts in equities by 10% last year, leading to one of the “steepest declines in years” in the number of investment bank employees, according to analytics firm CRISIL Coalition.
  • Intesa Sanpaolo took the market by surprise when it launched a takeover bid for UBI Banca this week. A successful deal could set off a long overdue wave of mergers and acquisitions within the Italian banking sector, which ECM bankers are hoping will be financed through a slew of new rights issues. Tyler Davies and Sam Kerr report.
  • HSBC’s corporate finance staff have survived its restructuring largely unscathed, but the more ambitious among them will see the bank’s plans as a missed opportunity, writes David Rothnie. And with no answer yet on the identity of the next full-time CEO, the uncertainty is not over.
  • Natixis finds new investment banking boss — UniCredit replaces Steffens with Pabarcius in UK — Lloyds puts Paterson at risk