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  • The Chinese securities regulator and the Shanghai bourse have boosted requirements on Star market IPO candidates’ technology credentials, banning the listing of financial and investment companies and tightening scrutiny on financial technology firms.
  • US investment banks have set a high bar for their European rivals by posting record revenues powered by a boom in capital markets underwriting.
  • A planned restructuring of China’s Ant Group into a financial holding company has raised questions — and fuelled speculation — about when the firm is able to revive its derailed IPO and how it will be valued. Addison Gong reports.
  • Several European banks’ noses were put out of joint this week by research from Jefferies, which suggested a very different ranking of banks’ ESG characteristics from that investors usually get from rating providers. The study argued commercial ESG ratings on banks are not fit for purpose.
  • Anna Vasilenko, a former managing director at the Moscow Exchange, has joined EM, the strategic advisory and communications firm for clients in Russia, China and other emerging markets, as its CEO.
  • Chinese financial technology company Ant Group Co will transform itself into a financial holding company as part of a government mandated restructuring that will affect its key payments, consumer lending and wealth management businesses.