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Ten months after its unusual regional retreat in equity capital markets and M&A, HSBC has had a good year in debt capital markets, suggesting its new strategy can work
Bank says it is investing in Middle East and plans more hires
Loans and energy specialists leave after many years with bank
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  • Big banks and boutiques alike are ramping up operations to boost revenues in France, Europe’s most competitive investment banking market. But is there enough business — and talent — to go around? By David Rothnie.
  • The Hong Kong, Shanghai and Shenzhen stock exchanges have agreed to include Hong Kong listed dual-class shares in the Stock Connect trading programme. This could just be what the HKEX’s two lonely weighted voting rights (WVRs) stocks, Xiaomi Corp and Meituan Dianping, need, said bankers and analysts. Jonathan Breen reports.
  • Bank of America Merrill Lynch has hired James Palmer to act as chairman of its equity capital markets business for Europe, the Middle East and Africa.
  • John Flint quit his position as CEO of HSBC on Monday after less than two years in the job, as the bank warned of difficult global conditions in its second quarter results. The bank’s chair Mark Tucker implied the desire for change related to a problem with Flint’s execution of the bank’s strategy, rather than the strategy itself, but the departure has also raised questions about HSBC’s Chinese operations.
  • Hong Kong’s Hang Seng Index (HSI) fell by nearly 3% on Monday as a mass strike gripped the city, bringing chaos to public transport and local infrastructure.
  • The London Stock Exchange Group’s purchase of market data and infrastructure firm Refinitiv for around $27bn will help it make a push in data, as well as allow it to expand its index business in fixed income, the stock exchange provider believes.