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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.
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The sellers of Oltin, a closed-ended fund seeking to invest in Uzbekistan, have decided to postpone a public listing and proceed with private fundraising after investors expressed a preference for an unlisted fund structure.
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UBS’s investment bank had a mixed performance in the second quarter, with advisory and underwriting performance defying expectations to rise by some way, while trading revenues fell, the bank showed in its results on Tuesday.
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The first 25 companies that started trading on the new Shanghai tech board on Monday skyrocketed, as Chinese investors welcomed the Nasdaq-style equity market with frenzied trading. As the excitement cooled on Tuesday, the bourse’s performance shows that regulators must not just focus on market reform, but also on market participants.
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Risk adverse equity capital markets banks have largely moved away from bidding for auctioned block trade activity in 2019, and are concentrating on large client-mandated business, which they can de-risk before they launch.
