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US company FIS is buying the formerly RBS-owned Worldpay in a debt-funded $43bn transaction, a deal that will form one of the biggest financial services technology and payment companies in the world. -
Deutsche Bank has signalled its commitment to maintaining a “strong capital markets business” after admitting it has begun formal merger talks with smaller rival Commerzbank.
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In this round-up, trade talks between the United States and China continued, the Foreign Investment Law was passed by the National People’s Congress and the US urged Germany to ban Huawei
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Hong Kong’s securities regulator has fined Bank of America, Morgan Stanley, Standard Chartered and UBS after investigations into the banks’ sponsorship of a series of IPOs. The Swiss bank has also had its sponsor licence revoked for a year. Jonathan Breen reports.
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Proprietary trading firms have hit out against some derivatives exchange’s plans to introduce passive liquidity protection on some of the contracts that they offer, in an open letter to US regulators.
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Both the nature and timing of the European Union’s planned Taxonomy of Sustainable Economic Activities are in doubt. Conservative members of the European Parliament this week voted down an ambitious draft of the bill, and some nation states appear reluctant to push the Taxonomy bill through to the statute book before the European elections in May, writes Jon Hay.
