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  • The Taiwan Stock Exchange Corp (TWSE) and Bursa Malaysia have signed a memorandum of understanding to explore capital market opportunities and expand cross border co-operation.
  • Balanced mutual funds and risk parity funds were among those most wrong-footed by the UK voting reject EU membership last week, according to equity analysts, while leveraged exchange traded funds amplified the market fallout of the vote.
  • What began as a week of turmoil for European credit and equity markets amid Brexit uncertainty is ending on a full circle return with no immediate signs that that the UK will begin a formal exit from the EU soon and amid rumours on Thursday that the ECB will relax the terms of its bond repurchase programme.
  • Asian markets went to sleep on Thursday confident that the UK would still be part of the European Union the following morning and that business would go back to normal. But the UK’s public defied expectations and voted to leave the EU, forcing Asia bankers to completely rethink their plans.
  • Bank of America Merrill Lynch has created a new debt solutions unit in Asia Pacific and has named two bankers to run it.
  • Markets watchers in Asia said they were optimistic, as GlobalCapital Asia went to press on Thursday, that next week would be a return to business as usual, given their widespread expectations that the UK would choose to remain in the European Union. But some warned that, irrespective of the outcome, currency risks could spill over to other asset classes, adversely affecting bonds and equities.