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  • The two largest equity index providers put A-shares in the spotlight this week, with FTSE Russell announcing it would begin including the stock in its emerging markets index from June 2019, and MSCI launching a consultation on granting A-shares a greater share of its EM indices.
  • Five trade bodies began lobbying efforts on initial margin phase-in in earnest this week, warning global regulators of severe consequences if incoming rules are not amended.
  • Nordea Bank's move into Finland next week will reveal the huge problems facing an incomplete Banking Union.
  • Embassy Office Parks Reit filed for India’s first property trust this week, pushing ahead with an IPO that has been in the works for years. The joint venture of Blackstone and its local partner will be hoping to exorcise the ghosts of infrastructure investment trusts (InvIt) past, with the pressure on for a successful outcome. John Loh reports.
  • Asian equities showed mixed responses to the increase in the federal funds rate announced by the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) on Wednesday night, while bonds in the region held up reasonably well. But there are worries that the pace of rate hikes until the end of 2019 might be too aggressive.
  • The chair of the influential UK Treasury select committee, Nicky Morgan, told a conference of derivatives bankers, lawyers and regulators, that despite the threat of “serious problems” for cross-border derivatives contracts in a Brexit no-deal scenario, she was “reasonably confident that a no deal scenario will not cause the whole sector to fall over”.