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A report that Jana Hecker, global head of equity syndicate and equity capital markets at UniCredit, had worked privately for Markus Braun, the imprisoned former CEO of Wirecard, stunned UniCredit employees on Friday afternoon when it appeared in the Financial Times. -
The Hong Kong regulator’s plan to overhaul the bookbuilding and allocation process for equity and bond deals has some worthy goals. But it is unnecessary for a market that has proven able to clean its own house.
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European investors have wholeheartedly embraced the EU’s Next Generation EU programme and piled into risky assets in anticipation of a swifter recovery. But rating agencies are less convinced, warning that only the substance and implementation of national recovery plans will determine the trajectory of European growth.
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Hong Kong’s Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) is planning to bring in sweeping changes to rules governing equity and bond deals, requiring syndicate teams to be fixed earlier and fee structures to be disclosed. The moves have divided bankers. Jonathan Breen and Morgan Davis report.
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Chinese regulators have made a long overdue move to reduce the number of boards at the Shenzhen stock exchange. That points to a greater commitment towards streamlining the country’s sometimes confounding capital markets.
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Hong Kong’s Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) is planning to introduce new rules that will require syndicate teams on bond and equity deals to be fixed earlier and brokers to disclose their fee structures, moves that are aimed at improving transparency in the city's capital markets and hold banks more accountable for their transactions.
