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  • Pakistan has started the year by rejigging rules for IPOs in the country, in a bid to revive its fledgling stock market by attracting more listings.
  • Andrew Bailey is seen as a ‘safe pair of hands’ as the new governor of the Bank of England. But while he is a veteran of the bank, his views on monetary policy are not well known, as he has never served on the Monetary Policy Committee. In that respect, though a career central banker, he resembles Christine Lagarde, who has taken the helm at the European Central Bank.
  • A veteran equity capital markets banker at ING is stepping down from his role in the equity capital markets division, after two decades at the firm.
  • Southpaw takes a sideways look at some of the big events that defined investment banking in 2019.
  • The way that financial and economic news is reported is a better guide to variance in global equity returns than VIX, the CBOE Volatility Index, according to research by the International Monetary Fund.
  • Big European investment banks pivoted towards the Americas during 2019 in an attempt to boost revenues and position themselves for the next downturn, writes David Rothnie. With large M&A across the industry still off the table, banks are finding scale through joint ventures and alliances.