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The European Securities and Markets Authority issued a warning on initial coin offerings on Monday, suggesting the unconventional capital raising tool may be subject to EU securities regulation. -
After years of anticipation, China has finally opened the door to majority foreign ownership across its financial sector. But instead of reacting with jubilance, international banks appear cautious as they await more details from regulators and remain vigilant of the challenges ahead, ranging from fierce local competition to licencing procedures.
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The effort to connect China’s green bond market with that of the Western world took a step forward on Saturday, with the launch of a technical document designed to make the two markets’ standards mutually intelligible.
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The deputy governor of the People’s Bank of China says foreign companies will be treated on an equal basis with their Chinese peers, two foreign fund managers obtain private fund management (PFM) licences through their wholly foreign owned enterprises (WFOE), and Goldman Sachs sets up an investment fund with China’s sovereign wealth fund targetting US companies.
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Authorities in China are removing the cap on foreign ownership on a series of financial sector joint ventures (JVs), Zhu Guangyao, deputy minister at the Chinese Ministry of Finance (MoF), said on November 10. The news came on the heels of US president Donald Trump's visit to China.
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The European Parliament’s legal service has hit back against a proposal by the European Central Bank (ECB) to make banks provision non-performing loans (NPLs) more aggressively, as analysts grilled the management teams from Italy’s largest banks on how they could handle the problem.
