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  • Record performance in RBC’s capital markets business helped the bank to rack up better than expected profits last week, taking its shares to all time highs.
  • The mutual market access (MMA) equity trading scheme between Hong Kong and the Shanghai Stock Exchange (SSE) is on track to launch in October after a successful two day compatibility test for brokers was completed last weekend. But even though the clock is ticking, there remain questions over how investors will be taxed and Shenzhen is also looking to get in on the act, writes Rev Hui.
  • Record performance in RBC’s capital markets business helped the bank to a better than expected profit last week, taking its shares to all time highs.
  • The mutual market access (MMA) equity trading scheme between Hong Kong Stock Exchange (HKEx) and the Shanghai Stock Exchange is looking well on schedule for an October launch following the successful completion of a two-day compatibility test on August 23-24. But in order for the scheme to work to its full potential, several outstanding issues need to be resolved, market observers warned.
  • The mutual market access (MMA) equity trading scheme that is expected to launch in October, also known as the Hong Kong-Shanghai Stock Connect and the Through Train, is likely to catalyse financial reform in the areas of RMB internationalisation and capital account opening, according to a report published on August 19 by CLSA and CITIC Securities (CITICS).
  • It has been the busiest period year to date for equity-linked issuance in years — but many of the market’s biggest players have been muscled out because of the unusual geographic skew of the year’s deals.