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  • UBS is rejigging its Hong Kong-based corporate finance group (CFG) and its team of junior China-focused country bankers, affecting about 20 staff.
  • Ipreo’s Investor Access system for bookbuilding primary bond deals will go live in December this year, following more than a year of piloting the scheme. Eleven banks are on board already, with two more, thought to be Credit Suisse and UniCredit, likely to join before the launch, but it remains controversial, with some fearing a loss of influence and control for the lead managers, and others concerned about the rise of a new market monopoly.
  • The Swiss bank’s investment in its M&A business is targeting both ends of the deal spectrum, writes David Rothnie.
  • Citic Securities is consolidating its Hong Kong-based units to create a single platform for all its offshore businesses under the CLSA brand, with a committee being formed to complete the process within 12 months.
  • Banks may lose out to other market players in competition to buy Commerzbank’s structured investment and ETF businesses, which will be on the market from next year, once they have been carved into a new entity. But investment banks are likely to be in pole position for the German bank’s exotic FICC derivatives book, also up for sale.
  • October’s $500bn deal bonanza may have been the biggest monthly total for over a decade but global M&A actually peaked a year ago, writes David Rothnie.