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  • The Shanghai Stock Exchange (SSE) could soon be home to the A-shares of foreign companies. A decade old initiative to bring firms based in Shanghai’s Free Trade Zone (FTZ) into the A-share market has resurfaced and the first foreign stock could be up for grabs on the SSE within a year, writes Jonathan Breen.
  • The UK’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has fined Christopher Niehaus, a former managing director in industrials investment banking at Jefferies, for sharing information about a client’s rights issue to impress his friends.
  • The European Commission on Wednesday struck down the all-but-dead proposed merger of the London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) and Deutsche Börse.
  • The UK’s Brexit secretary’s admission on Monday night that the government will not cap immigration after the country leaves the European Union — and that immigration could rise or fall after Brexit — may well be the first bit of good news on London’s future as Europe’s main financial centre since the referendum last June.
  • China Renaissance Group and ICBC International Holdings this week unveiled a partnership to provide financial services across mainland China, Hong Kong and the US.
  • This week, the head of the state administration of foreign exchange (Safe) criticised Chinese companies’ overseas acquisition choices, 13 countries joined Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) and ICBC Moscow started offering RMB clearing services.