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  • Nordea announced on Wednesday it would move its administrative headquarters from Sweden to Finland, allowing it to submit to supervision by Europe’s Single Supervisory Mechanism.
  • China’s Foreign Economic Cooperation Office (FECO) of the Ministry of Environmental Protection and a group of financial industry bodies in China have published a set of guidelines on controlling environmental risk for Chinese overseas investment.
  • The formerly booming cryptocurrency market was a sea of red on Monday, thanks to the news that China is making Initial Coin Offerings (ICOs) illegal. Other regulators are also stepping up their efforts to clean up the market.
  • 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.
  • Market participants have a lot of work still to do in preparing data and systems for the introduction of MiFID II and MiFIR, and getting the right technology is only part of what they need to do, according to the chief executive of a fintech firm specialising in the area.
  • The success of the UK’s ring fencing rules, which one analyst described as “the worst idea the [Financial Conduct Authority] has ever put forward” will rely on the UK’s courts, which will have to agree how to transfer customers and assets for eight UK banks. The court process will start in November and kick into high gear ahead of the final deadline of January 2019.