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  • Despite the ECB’s backstop bid, covered bond trading is a tough business. Tight spreads may help investors score mark-to-market gains, but discourage them selling since replacement assets are scarce. But the market is evolving, e-trading is on the march and traditional dealer rankings are changing too.
  • The Hong Kong Stock Exchange is set to pull out all the stops to woo energy giant Saudi Aramco to list on the bourse, with its chief executive describing it as a “match made in heaven” this week. But the HKEX has even bigger ambitions — to move from an exchange dominated by Chinese companies to one with foreign issuers, writes Jonathan Breen.
  • BlackRock has received the very first RMB qualified foreign institutional investor (RQFII) quota under the US allocation from the State Administration of Foreign Exchange, in yet another sign that global asset managers are ready to boost their China investments.
  • The Financial Conduct Authority has set out its proposals for reforming the UK IPO process, as the markets regulator looks for ways to maintain the UK’s eminence in capital markets.
  • Capital Intelligence Ratings (CI), which has a 35-year track record of rating banks in emerging markets, has joined forces with the European Covered Bond Council (ECBC) in a move that suggests the asset class is set to spread to new frontier regions.
  • CLSA has shuttered its domestic equity research business in the US, resulting in the loss of some 90 jobs in research, sales and trading and corporate access.