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After a frenetic start to the year, markets are taking a time out with investors looking for signs that we are near a peak in official interest rates. However, with central banks likely to keep raising interest rates until inflation starts to cool down, it is premature to call a bottom to what has thus far been a torrid year in financial markets.

Last week saw moves at a number of firms, including Franklin Templeton and Fidelity, as well as the Hong Kong stock exchange.

In this article, we explain what Swap Connect is, how it will work, and the potential impact it will have on offshore investors.

Exchanges profited from higher than usual trading volumes in the first quarter caused partly by the Russia-Ukraine conflict and rapidly rising interest rate expectations. Volumes have, however, now fallen across all asset classes to a more historically normalised level. The declining volumes are weighing on exchange stocks, and the three months to the end of June saw the FTSE Mondo Visione Exchanges Index down by 13.9%.

Fears of a recession are currently generating a much broader investor exodus from the commodity sector, writes Andy Home.

Six international and Chinese lenders, HSBC, StanChart, BNP Paribas, ANZ, ICBC and Bank of China, are among the inaugural members.

Hong Kong exchange enlists HSBC, Tencent to help create carbon market

HONG KONG, July 4, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited (HKEX) today (Monday) celebrates the successful launch of the inc...

HONG KONG, June 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited (HKEX) welcomes the joint announcement issued today (Tuesday) by the Hong Kong's Securities and Futures Commission

/PRNewswire/ -- Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited (HKEX) welcomes the joint announcement issued today (Tuesday) by the Hong Kongs Securities and...