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  • EU institutions agreed on Thursday to simplify the rules on prospectuses, increasing the size of capital raising which can be done without having to meet the full regulatory requirements, and easing the burden for frequent issuers.
  • Options trading picked up this week as the Italian referendum and European Central Bank meeting drove markets. But with few obvious catalysts for upset left in 2016 after these events, the focus is turning to the financials sector as the year’s last bastion of volatility.
  • More than half of a global group of 276 investors surveyed by HSBC have a strategy for reducing the environmental impact of their activities — but 74% of them encounter barriers to increasing their low carbon financing, mainly a lack of credible investment opportunities.
  • The non-performing loan securitization at the heart of Monte dei Paschi di Siena’s rescue package could pay out fees of €2.72bn — including €1bn of servicing commission and a €710m legal bill. The bank has also revealed details of the planned issue’s structure, and the spread it hopes to achieve on the senior notes. Owen Sanderson reports.
  • Credit Suisse has lowered profit targets for its Asia Pacific division amid a slump in volumes and capital markets activity, the bank said at its investor day this week.
  • China has been tightening capital controls as it faces continued outflows and currency depreciation. The result is likely to be a change of focus for the RMB internationalisation (RMBi) process to areas such as the Belt and Road initiative, according to Bank of America Merrill Lynch.