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  • Hong Kong’s stock exchange has appointed two legal and consulting veterans to senior positions in its IPO vetting unit and a new compliance team.
  • SRI
    The Wirecard scandal — like other recent debacles such as NMC Health — shows that financial reporting, oversight and governance, as they are currently practised, are woefully inadequate.
  • Short sellers who for years have complained that BaFin, the German financial markets regulator, ignored their criticisms of Wirecard, the collapsed payments company, and instead prosecuted the critics, have begun to be vindicated with the news that the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has opened a review into the organisation. By Silas Brown.
  • Banks are leading a revival in ECM business in India, with Yes Bank gunning for $2bn this week. There are also signs of activity in the country’s moribund IPO market, writes Jonathan Breen.
  • Jiumaojiu International Holdings bagged HK$839.3m ($108.3m) from a top-up share placement on Wednesday, with a group of employees also pulling off a concurrent block trade.
  • Investors are growing increasingly excited about the IPO of Allegro, the Polish e-commerce platform, and the sources working on the deal are hoping to use this momentum to launch the deal early in the autumn.
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