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Fears that MiFID II is demolishing coverage of smaller UK companies appear to be misplaced, according to research firm Hardman & Co, with analyst numbers actually on the up. But not everyone agrees with that assessment. Meanwhile, market participants think that liquidity is decreasing, despite what the UK’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) says, and this could boost private equity interest in these small firms. -
The Securities and Exchange Board of India has made a series of changes to the regulations for trusts to help give the nascent market a boost.
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Index provider MSCI will increase the weight of China A-shares in its flagship emerging market index from 5% to 20%. The move will happen over three phases and be completed by November 2019, the company announced on Thursday.
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Hong Kong’s stock exchange operator is planning to attract more companies from the Asia Pacific region to list in Hong Kong, as well boosting its Stock Connect schemes with China. The moves should help cement its position as a global fundraising hub, according to a strategic plan published Thursday.
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In this round-up, China’s benchmark CSI300 index saw its biggest daily rise in three years after trade negotiations and deleveraging boosted investor sentiment, service imports and exports rose in 2018 and a Bloomberg survey indicated Hong Kong and Singapore investors are optimistic on Chinese onshore bonds.
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A group of nine NGOs, trade unions and other civil society groups have got together to produce an independent white paper setting out in detail how they believe the European Union’s Sustainable Finance Action Plan should progress. It calls on the EU to push ahead with the Plan, only some of whose targets have been acted on so far, and to take it further and deeper.
