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  • Deutsche Bank’s strategic overhaul looks set to maintain the bank’s leading position in debt capital markets and leveraged finance. But it casts doubts over Deutsche’s ability to retain a top tier corporate finance franchise and could signal the slow death of its equity capital markets franchise, writes David Rothnie.
  • UBS’s decision to create a global team dedicated to private capital markets is symptomatic of a shift in how companies finance themselves and time their IPOs. With vast pools of private capital available, companies are going public later in their lifecycles, leading to stretched valuations and fewer listed companies. Aidan Gregory reports.
  • The Shanghai Stock Exchange (SSE) has pledged to host at least 25 companies on the Star board by July 22, when it opens for trading. That tight deadline caused nine companies to open books on the same day this week.
  • The Korea Exchange has temporarily banned NH Investment & Securities (NHIS) and Korea Investment & Securities (KIS) from sponsoring growth-track IPOs in the country until November 2020, according to multiple sources close to the situation.
  • Deutsche Bank’s staff were dealt a crushing blow this week when it announced a full exit from the equities business and 18,000 job cuts globally. In Asia, the move has led to the equities capital markets unit all but disappearing. Jonathan Breen reports.
  • UBS has created a new global team focused on private capital markets, giving it more exposure to a rapidly growing area of finance, as companies go public later in their life cycles and the amount of institutional and private money dedicated to private equity has grown and become more sophisticated.