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Standard Chartered launched a $5.3 billion rights issue to bolster its finances in response to Basel regulations and to take advantage of growth opportunities. The cash is not however a war chest for acquisitions, Chief Executive Peter Sands said. *View article *View analysis on the stringent new rules for banks *View article on other banks following Standard Chartered’s lead

China has the world’s largest IPO market this year and next year could be even busier if the government allows foreign companies to sell shares on its stock markets, an executive at Credit Suisse said. *View article

Matt Rosoff at Business Insider predicts a deal is still coming from Microsoft and Adobe. *View article

New capital rules set by global regulators brought relief to the world’s banks on Monday, giving weaker lenders time to raise funds and freeing the strong to lift dividends or hit the acquisition trail. *View article *View Basel III factbox *View analysis on the impact

Marking HP’s second major deal since the departure of Mark Hurd as chief executive, the company said it will buy security software firm ArcSight Inc for $1.5 billion in cash. *View article *View reaction from Seeking Alpha

Frozen out of deals for two years by a lack of credit and a stormy economic outlook, buyout firms are now back fighting over assets, keen to spend hundreds of billions of dollars before time runs out and they have to give money back to investors. *View article