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  • Euronext and the Shenzhen Stock Exchange (SZSE) signed an agreement last month to increase the public profile of small and medium sized technology enterprises listed on both exchanges. This is the latest in a series of initiatives between the two parties which Lee Hodgkinson, Euronext’s head of markets and global sales, said is part of a strategy to bring Europe closer to China.
  • Standard & Poor's has boosted Pakistan’s credit rating to B from B- on the back of improvements in the economy and the outlook of its fiscal and external positions, as well as better governance.
  • IPOs are on the verge of getting easier in Pakistan. The country’s market regulator has approved a new framework with the primary objectives of making it easy to do business and streamlining the public offering process.
  • In this round-up, the Infrastructure Financing Facilitation Office appoints the first group of partner entities, RMB depreciation boosts trading activity in FX markets, and the RMB qualified foreign institutional investor scheme adds two participants in October. Plus, a recap of our top stories this week.
  • UBS is being investigated by the Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission for its role in IPOs, with the bank warning that it faces a possible suspension of its corporate finance licence.
  • The Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication’s (Swift) latest RMB tracker shows that during the last two years, seven new countries are using the renminbi for more than 10% of their direct payments with China and Hong Kong.