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  • Bank of America Merrill Lynch has made a key hire for its South African investment banking business.
  • Hong Kong’s Securities and Futures Commission has begun consultations with market participants over plans to grow its futures and options market by relaxing trading position limits for listed derivatives.
  • A senior UK-focused equity capital markets banker at JP Morgan has left the bank to join Numis Securities as a managing director.
  • The Chicago Board Options Exchange plans to launch options trading on the FTSE Emerging Index next week, offering market participants exposure to the performance of large and mid-cap companies from advanced and secondary emerging markets.
  • The Autorité des Marchés Financiers, the French securities regulator, has set out its approach to new rules on research, introduced as part of the MiFID II package, which could see the volume of sellside research slashed. The French proposals could set the tone for the rest of Europe’s regulators, ahead of implementation of the rules at the beginning of 2018 — but it still leave questions hanging over fixed income.
  • The US Commodity Trading Futures Commission's split over whether to accept Japan's uncleared margin rules as equivalent to the US was not an ideal outcome. But the decision, however contentious, is a pragmatic step which will motivate further convergence between regulatory regimes.