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July 28 — The Shanghai Stock Exchange published its July 2026 update to bond-pledged repo funding-provider display information, the first centralized update. The disclosed list expanded to 22 providers with eight new financial institutions added. The exchange also updated acceptable pledged-securities scopes and business-contact details for some existing providers. The broader, maturing disclosure-and-use mechanism widens participant coverage, improves lender–borrower matching and supports activation of financing value in high-quality collateral.