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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
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  • The London Stock Exchange Group declared on Monday it is interested in buying market data and infrastructure firm Refinitiv for $27bn, a purchase that would give it added clout in data and analytics. Refinitiv’s bonds — notorious in the high yield market for their structure — and LSEG’s shares moved up on the news.
  • As hardline Brexiteer Boris Johnson takes power in the UK, the European Commission is set to claim that the equivalence test for financial firms is tougher when the country in question is heavily connected to the EU.
  • The world’s poorest countries receive just a trickle of investment from debt and equity capital markets, despite new figures showing that overall foreign investment is now about as large as official aid payments.
  • Darren Novak, head of activist defence at UBS, has moved from New York to London, with the bank seeing an opportunity to improve its service for European companies seeking to deal with activist investors.
  • After creating three billionaires and causing an unprecedented 400% share price rise for one company at the end of the first trading day, Shanghai’s new technology board saw $1bn wiped out on Tuesday. As the feverish excitement among investors cools down, longer-term concerns around China’s IPO markets have emerged, writes Rebecca Feng.
  • It was set of gruelling results for Deutsche Bank’s corporate and investment bank on Wednesday, with revenues from debt underwriting, equity underwriting, advisory and equity trading all underperforming peers that have already posted figures. Meanwhile, the group as a whole recorded substantial charges from its restructuring plans but said this would not impact its capital ratio much.