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  • Natixis has signed a five year strategic alliance with Oddo BHF, the Franco-German brokerage. They will combine their equity trading and capital markets businesses, in a move triggered by the arrival of MiFID II in January 2018.
  • The Basel Committee on Banking Supervision has put pen to paper in finalising the international set of banking regulations known as Basel III, giving capital markets some long-awaited clarity on the way in which banks should model for risk. By Tyler Davies.
  • Europe looks ripe for a wave of takeovers by Chinese companies in 2018, as the country becomes more willing to countenance dealmaking overseas after its recent pullback.
  • Deutsche Bank shook up the senior ranks of its equity capital markets desk in Asia this week, removing the co-head structure and merging ECM with equity derivatives. The move comes amid a global reorganisation being rolled out from the bank’s headquarters that combines the equity and debt financing units with markets. John Loh reports.
  • Vietnam is giving a fillip to transparency around IPOs of state-owned companies, passing a new law that will allow firms that are being privatised to conduct a public bookbuilding. While a step in the right direction, the effect of the law is still being debated, with many problems yet to be overcome, writes Jonathan Breen.
  • China's foreign exchange reserves expanded for the tenth month running, gold futures on the Hong Kong Exchange (HKEX) set a new record, and Aberdeen Standard Investment nabbed a private fund management licence.