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  • The idea of a Primary Equity Connect (PEC) linking China and Hong Kong has reared its head again after the Hong Kong Stock Exchange (HKSE) published a report trumping its benefits. Needless to say, the market is divided. While many see benefits, others see dangers in bringing the two markets closer together. Jonathan Breen reports.
  • When China's free trade zone (FTZ) bond market was launched last December, regulators envisaged it as foreign investors’ fast lane into Chinese fixed income. But one year on, there are doubts over whether the market has a future — only one FTZ bond has been sold, and meanwhile the onshore bond market is enjoying a rapid rise.
  • The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has proposed the creation of national green financing vehicles to give a boost to environmentally friendly and financially sustainable infrastructure investments.
  • The US has slapped Habib Bank (HBL) with one of the biggest fines on an Asian financial institution in recent years. Pakistan's largest bank is the latest lender to be penalised for flouting anti-money laundering rules but said it would contest the fine.
  • China Securities Regulatory Commission says stock exchanges should take up a more active regulatory role, the discipline commission puts anti-graft official stationed at the Ministry of Finance under investigation, and an index by Bank of China shows an uptick in cross-border renminbi activity in the second quarter.
  • Banks scrambled this week to trigger credit default swaps on the back of Noble Group’s loan restructuring in June, after the Asian International Swaps and Derivatives Association determinations committee decided to dismiss the issue, a lawyer has told GlobalCapital.