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  • Cornerstone investors taking up huge chunks of Hong Kong IPOs have caused much controversy in recent years, but that looks set to change. China’s foreign exchange regulator has provided a new route for investing in the city’s listings, which is expected to diversify the pool of potential cornerstones beyond the typical state-owned enterprises, and friends and family investors. Jonathan Breen reports.
  • Now there’s a chance that the marginalised and downtrodden voters of rust belt America will get what they really want — a wholesale dismantling of the post-crisis banking regulation — the finance industry must ask itself if that’s what it really wants.
  • UniCredit has named the bankers to fill a series of senior country posts in its financing and advisory business, which covers equity and debt origination, coverage and M&A.
  • HSBC has confirmed that it has hired Chris Laing to be head of equity capital markets for central and eastern Europe, the Middle East and Africa.
  • Onshore Chinese investors can now buy into Hong Kong IPOs directly if they are acting as cornerstones investors, following a change in regulation by the State Administration of Foreign Exchange (Safe).
  • Cicero, the climate research institute at Oslo University, has produced a report to help investors work out where they face risks from climate change, with red, orange and yellow flags for the severity and immediacy of threats.