HONG KONG — Morgan Stanley has won final approval to launch a futures business in China via a newly established unit, becoming the second major US entrant in the derivatives market of the world's second-largest economy.

Morgan Stanley Futures (China), wholly owned by the US bank, was for the first time listed as a licensed institution by the China Securities Regulatory Commission on Friday, a filing from the regulator showed.

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