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India’s stock market regulator has published consultation papers on real estate and infrastructure investment trusts while Singapore’s financial regulatory authority has firmed up its rules for real estate investment trusts (Reits). -
Banks in Asia finished 2015 with revenues of $11.4bn, down 2% on the previous year, with equity capital markets the only saving grace, as billings shrank in debt capital markets, loans and mergers and acquisitions.
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Barclays is preparing to let go of investment banking staff in Asia as the UK lender continues to wind down its presence in non-core markets.
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The Chinese circuit breaker mechanism shut down stock trading for the second time in just four days on January 7. Despite the 12% drop in the Shanghai Composite Index (SHCOMP) since end of 2015, Macquarie expects MSCI to finally green light A-shares inclusion for its popular global stock indices in June.
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Much rulemaking was published in 2015, but that doesn’t mean bankers are any clearer on what it means for their businesses. And as they wade through the thousands of pages of finalised regulation, the banking industry is highly likely to be faced with additional rules — and challenges —in 2016. Graham Bippart reports.
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Blockchain, the technology underlying bitcoin, is coming to a back office, and clearing house, and bank, and front office near you. Instead of one authority keeping records, everyone will. That’s the idea, anyway, of a wave of start-ups rushing to build workable applications. How will clarity emerge from this ferment, and just how will it change the business of capital markets? Jon Hay reports.
