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  • Eurex and CME Group both lined up new futures contracts this week as the market assessed a generational shift from bilateral derivatives towards cleared, exchange traded products.
  • US election jitters are weighing on Asia’s equity and debt capital markets, leaving bankers split over the best course of action for issuers before the November 8 vote. Some are advising clients to make full use of the next fortnight, while others are advocating hanging back and rolling with the punches in the aftermath of the result. John Loh reports.
  • A group of banks and service providers, led by New York based start-up Axoni, have completed a test of blockchain technology and smart contracts to manage affirmations and post-trade lifecycle processing for over-the-counter equity swaps, building on similar work done earlier this year for credit derivatives.
  • Malaysia’s CIMB Group and China Galaxy Securities Co said they are in talks to form a 50:50 joint venture for their stockbroking operations.
  • The UK’s Financial Conduct Authority will look over some banks’ shoulders to make sure they are allocating IPOs fairly and is trying to get league table providers to reduce incentives for banks to engage in ‘league table trades’ in the equity blocks market.
  • Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) is weighing up whether to appeal a decision by the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) that the exchange operator should sell its recent Trayport acquisition to preserve competition in wholesale energy trading.