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Here are the top reads on deals and financial services over the last 24 hours,

To woo retail investors, Bay Street rethinks the way bond deals are sold: In a first for Canada, a corporate bond deal has been sold the same way share financings are, paving the way for the famously private fixed-income market to attract a new set of investors. On Monday, CanWel Building Materials Group Ltd. sold $60-million worth of new bonds by way of a bought deal. The debt pays a 6.375-per-cent coupon and will mature in five years. Story (Tim Kildaze, for subscribers)

No buyers for Canadian media companies: Investment bankers call them busted auctions: Companies that put up a “For Sale” sign, fail to find a buyer and face the daunting prospect of continuing to run the business without wealthy new owners. Canada’s media sector, traditionally a neighbourhood where any property put up for sale kicks off a bidding war, is currently littered with busted auctions. Businesses that were on the auction block this summer include Corus Entertainment Inc. and DHX Media Ltd., along with the magazines division of Rogers Communications Inc. The “For Sale” signs are still up on front yards. Story (Andrew Willis, for subscribers)

How the 2008 meltdown rewrote the crisis playbook for Canada’s banks: When Daniel Moore took the call telling him Lehman Brothers was about to fail, he was driving home from Muskoka, Ont., with his wife. It was Sunday, Sept. 14, 2008. He’d just finished a triathlon and he was tired. “Not as tired as I was going to be,” he said. Mr. Moore’s day job was running Bank of Nova Scotia’s credit derivatives trading desk, which was suddenly on the front lines of an unfolding financial crisis. Scotiabank had hundreds of millions of dollars of exposure to Lehman, a 158-year-old investment bank, when it filed for bankruptcy. Story (James Bradshaw, for subscribers)

A decade after financial crisis, governments are backsliding on investor, consumer rights: Ten years after Lehman Brothers’ collapse, the global financial system is arguably much safer, thanks to tighter lending standards and higher bank reserves. For the rest of us – savers, investors and retirees – it remains a world of uncertainty, vulnerability and risk. And conditions may be getting worse as governments and regulators backpedal on consumer protection. Story (Barrie McKenna, for subscribers)

Imperial Metals explores sale of company amid financial restructuring: Troubled junior copper producer Imperial Metals Corp. has kicked off a strategic review that may result in the sale of the company as it struggles under a mountain of debt. In a Monday release, Imperial Metals said it will also consider selling assets piecemeal, entering into joint ventures or recapitalizing the company. Story (Niall McGee, for subscribers)

Troubled developer Fortress searching for buyers for many of its properties as legal woes mount: Troubled real estate developer Fortress Real Developments Inc. is searching for buyers for many of its projects as the list of mortgage lenders launching legal action grows. Among the latest moves, two senior lenders have filed lawsuits seeking to take control of Fortress’s Triple Creek housing subdivision project west of Calgary, while another lender is seeking to seize Old Market Lane, a condominium and townhouse development in the Toronto suburb of Woodbridge. Story (Janet McFarland and Jeffrey Jones, for subscribers)

Toronto lags behind other cities in race to grab a piece of ‘green’ economy, report says: The global shift toward a greener economy is expected to generate big profits for financial institutions, but a new report says Toronto is falling behind in the race to grab a slice of the market. Canada’s financial sector stands to earn at least US$27-billion in annual revenue from sustainable finance – financial services that integrate environmental, social and governance factors into business or investment decisions. By 2025, revenues could be as high as US$110-billion annually, according to data from Corporate Knights, Inc., a Toronto-based research and media company focused on corporate social responsibility. That includes revenues from underwriting green bonds, financing clean energy and infrastructure projects and providing customers with socially responsible investment products. Story (Alexandra Posadzki, for subscribers)

TSX-listed firms see more women on boards, but top tier still stagnant: report: The number of women occupying seats in the boardrooms of Canada’s large, publicly listed companies is inching higher, but gender diversity is stagnating at the executive level, according to a new report. Women occupied 16.4 per cent of the board seats at Toronto Stock Exchange-listed companies at the end of July, up about two percentage points from a year ago, according to a report published on Friday by law firm Osler Hoskin & Harcourt LLP. Story (Alexandra Posadzki, for sbuscribers)

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Brexit: Deutsche Bank is considering shifting large volumes of assets from London to Frankfurt after the U.K.'s planned exit from the European Union next year to meet demands from European regulators, a person close to the matter said on Sunday. Story

JPMorgan Chase & Co. Chief Executive Officer Jamie Dimon said Sunday he regretted making comments that he is “smarter” than U.S. President Donald Trump and could beat him in an election. “I shouldn’t have said it. It also proves I would not be a good politician,” Dimon said in an interview on ABC’s This Week. Story

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Antitrust approval: Health insurer Cigna Corp’s US$52 billion acquisition of pharmacy benefits manager Express Scripts Holding Co has passed U.S. antitrust scrutiny, the companies said on Monday, allowing them to proceed with a combination they say will lead to lower costs by better coordinating pharmacy and medical benefits. Story

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