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  • The People’s Bank of China announces new rules to promote cross-border RMB transactions, HSBC plans to launch a new service in Poland to capture business opportunities related to the Belt and Road Initiative, and Agricultural Bank of China obtained approvals for new branches in Southeast Asia.
  • With growing demand for overseas investment, Chinese regulators could release new outbound investment quotas in 2018 by rebooting the qualified domestic institutional investor (QDII) programme and launching a two-way ETF Connect with Hong Kong.
  • Chinese regulators have given their blessing to Global Logistics Properties (GLP) returning to the Panda market. The company is putting a Belt and Road spin to the issuance programme, even though proceeds are going towards a recent acquisition in Western Europe.
  • As the first trades of the new year hit the screen this week, one new line stuck out in the deal announcements — a specification that the target market for the issue would only be eligible counterparties and professional clients, a piece of boilerplate to comply with the new MiFID II rules.
  • SSA
    Banks have been pushed by new regulation to reveal their new issue bond fees for the first time, potentially shaking up competition in European DCM. But confusion over the rules has meant no consensus on how to share the information, leaving underwriters and issuers alike to improvise in the first week of MiFID II.
  • Arif Hussein, a former rates trader involved in the Libor rigging scandal at UBS, faced the Upper Tribunal this week to argue against his ban from working in the City, saying he had just been following orders. Following the UK’s introduction of the Senior Managers Regime in 2016, any similar scandal would play out very differently today.