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  • The Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) is taking steps to speed up equity raisings in the country, proposing ways to cut not just the time it takes to list but also conduct rights issues and other public offerings. The draft proposals come at a time when the Indian ECM market is set for a busy year, with bankers saying the new measures will make life easier not just for issuers but also investors.
  • Bayerische Landesbank and Berenberg, the Hamburg-based private investment bank, have announced an unusual deal to cooperate in corporate finance, designed to help both firms fill gaps in their product armouries, especially around mergers and acquisitions.
  • The latest 600 pages of guidelines from the European Securities and Markets Authority ruined Christmas for a few market participants, but it still leaves the future of fixed income research a mystery.
  • Standard Chartered has taken a knife to its global equities division as it seeks to cull some of its loss-making businesses. The move is expected to affect around 200 jobs, the majority of which are in Asia.
  • Deutsche Bank has appointed two bankers in new positions to focus on technology in its US equity capital markets team, as it seeks to grow further in what was already a booming sector for IPOs last year.
  • The Hong Kong Stock Exchange (HKEx) will allow short-selling on the Shanghai-Hong Kong Stock Connect later this month and will unveil a system to track investors' holdings in March, the latest in a series of measures to lift sagging volumes on the trading link.