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  • The Shenzhen-Hong Kong Stock Connect Scheme was officially given the go ahead by China’s State Council on Tuesday, with the Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) making the breakthrough announcement that the entire Stock Connect scheme will now operate without aggregate trading quotas. Exchange traded funds (ETFs) and derivatives are due to come in future expansions.
  • Mizuho Securities Co and Maybank Kim Eng have formed a partnership to boost their equity brokerage businesses by offering research and trading execution services between Japan and Malaysia.
  • India’s insurance regulator is proposing to make IPOs mandatory for all insurers that have been in operation for a certain number of years, in a bid to increase their transparency.
  • Steven Maartensz and Dyson Bowditch have been named co-heads of equities distribution for Goldman Sachs in Australia, according to an internal memo seen by GlobalCapital Asia.
  • Dovish actions taken by the Bank of England last week, particularly its sterling corporate bond buying programme, helped send short dated credit and equity implied volatility near to their post-crisis lows, prompting traders to begin to roll out of short volatility trades and size up potential bumps in September.
  • Support for the London Stock Exchange and Deutsche Börse’s merger plans has solidified among the German exchange’s shareholders, with more than 75% having tendered their shares — crossing the original threshold set by management.