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China May Change IPO Pricing After Scrapping Debut Trading Cap

  • Regulator looking for ‘correct way’ to end 44% cap, Fang says
  • IPOs are sure bet in China due to tacit limit on valuation

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China’s securities regulator may consider changes to the current pricing mechanism of initial public offerings after removing the first-day trading cap, according to a senior official.

“I think the direction is clear,” Fang Xinghai, vice chairman of the China Securities Regulatory Commission, said Thursday in a Bloomberg Television interview with Haslinda Amin on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. He said it takes “careful consideration to find a correct way” to remove the cap.