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Burford Capital’s debt and equity securities rebounded on Thursday, after the firm rebutted claims from short seller Muddy Waters Research that it was "arguably insolvent". The episode brought some rare excitement to the sterling retail bond market, but is perhaps emblematic of its decline over the past few years. Meanwhile, investors appeared undecided over whether Muddy Waters’ claims about the litigation funder were correct. -
JP Morgan has hired veteran banker Yuka Uehara to its Japan equity capital markets team, and brought on Jinsoo Ha to lead ECM in South Korea, according to an internal memo seen by GlobalCapital Asia.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
