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  • The Shanghai-Hong Kong Stock Connect has been a notable achievement in China’s plan to open up its capital markets, but it can be hard to keep up with the trading link’s new developments. Thankfully, GlobalCapital Asia’s infographic is here to give you a helping hand.
  • Citi has named Christian Kames investment banking head for Germany, Austria and Switzerland.
  • The new chief executives at Deutsche Bank and Barclays have plenty of challenges ahead. Internal bureaucracy could well be the biggest.
  • The worst crash in China’s domestic stock market since the late 1990s has dominated headlines for weeks but its potential impact may have been exaggerated, with the sell-off mostly felt by very highly-leveraged investors, said analysts. The economy will also be largely unscathed, they say.
  • UBS has hired what it said was its first ever global head of equity syndicate, in a bid to fight its way back up the US equity capital markets league table.
  • Goldman Sachs said that Karen Cook would become co-chairman of its investment banking division.