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  • The Russian investment bank is on the look-out for banking talent while its rivals retrench, writes David Rothnie.
  • Jefferies has expanded its equity sales platform in Asia Pacific, hiring bankers in Hong Kong, Singapore and Tokyo.
  • Hong Kong’s Securities and Futures Commission should toughen up punishments for shoddy due diligence on IPOs and cooperate with mainland regulators to make sure Chinese companies follow the rules, senior lawyers said this week, after the regulator picked a new chief executive.
  • Though some details remain up in the air the European Commission’s new CRD IV proposals have brought banks significantly closer to issuing tier one hybrids that absorb losses through equity conversion, according to regulatory capital structurers.
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    Evolution Securities has hired Exane BNP Paribas’ Ian Gordon to cover FIG equity research.
  • As an independent investment bank run by a cabal of former Credit Suisse bankers, Renaissance Capital earned recognition in the last decade for beating the world’s top investment banks in Russia. Now, after near bankruptcy in 2008 and with talismanic founder Stephen Jennings back as chief executive, the firm has revived its plan to become a leading force in emerging markets, writes David Rothnie.