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  • There are signs that the pace of RQFII quota approvals is picking up, even though the volume of quotas handed out is still lagging the pace seen until the fourth quarter of 2014. A tax bill of as much as $4bn could also spoil the RQFII party, but the Stock Connect could be set for a boost as European Ucits funds get the green light to participate.
  • India’s union budget announcement over the weekend was bittersweet for ECM bankers hoping for positive changes to tax rules for real estate investment trusts (Reits) and infrastructure investment trusts (InvITs). While the government delivered some much-needed clarity on some aspects of the tax regime, big gaps still remain with the stage not yet set to welcome the country’s first Reits.
  • BNP Paribas has promoted Sylvain Magne to head of equity-linked Asia Pacific and deputy head of ECM North Asia in the bank’s Hong Kong office, according to banking sources.
  • Four managing directors have lost their jobs at Sberbank CIB. The bank chopped nearly half of its London front office team just over a week ago.
  • Fad'l Mohamed is expected to join Malaysia’s Maybank IB as deputy CEO next week, as the bank seeks to win more business in the country.
  • CIMB Bank has made about 40 jobs redundant in North Asia and India, as the Malaysian bank continues a pullback of its Asia Pacific investment banking franchise.