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Securities regulator tightens the IPO tap

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The securities regulator (CSRC) introduced a new IPO review process last month.
The result is that IPO reviews have gotten much stricter:

Only 55% of new applications were approved last month
That’s down from 80% in the first nine months of 2017

The reason: New criteria focus more on int...