Tagged: initial public offerings

Latin America based Startups Are Laying Off Workers, LatAm Now Expecting More IPOs, Report Claims

Startups in Latin America are reportedly laying off staff members and are now expecting significantly more initial public offerings (IPOs) by 2024. According to reports, around two-thirds or roughly 67% of Latin American firms have now laid off staff members during the past 18 months,… Read More

Has the Dust Settled? EquityZen Says IPO Market Needs Catalyst for a Lot of Pent Up Demand

Initial public offerings have hit the pause button in the past months – at least until recently. Last week, CAVA (NYSE:CAVA), a Mediterranean restaurant concept, successfully floated shares on the NYSE, seeing the shares rocket on the first day of trading. The strong showing in… Read More

EquityZen Predicts that Ongoing Bank Crisis will be Catalyst for IPO Market

Phil Haslett, co-founder and Chief Strategy officer at EquityZen, believes that the ongoing bank crisis could be a catalyst for the initial public offering (IPO) market in 2023. So this may be a bit of a stretch, but Haslett sees the collapse of Silicon Valley… Read More

Slowest IPO Market Since 1990: SBCFAC Discusses Dismal Public Offering Market

This past week, the SEC’s Small Business Capital Formation Advisory Committee met to discuss several key topics regarding access to capital and smaller firms. One of the topics revolved around initial public offerings (IPOs), a sector of finance that tanked in 2022. In fact, according… Read More

Fintech Insights Report for Q1 from FT Partners Says It’s Set to be Another Record Year for Fintechs

FT Partners recently shared their Q1 2022 Fintech Insights Report. As noted in the update from FT Partners, it has been a record year for financing in Fintech. The firm is internationally known for its expertise in the Fintech industry. FT Partners has associations with… Read More

London Stock Exchange (LSE) to Establish New Trading Platform for Private Firms

Given its established history, the London Stock Exchange (LSE) was due for a major update. The LSE was established back in 1698 as simply a list of prices posted to the wall of a back-alley coffee house. Then about 100 years later, it began hosting… Read More

Stock Trading in Hong Kong has Increased Significantly Compared to Volumes Reported Recently by London Stock Exchange

Stock trading volumes in Hong Kong have reportedly increased by as much as 4x compared to those on London’s main stock exchange, as large tech stocks continue to attract investors from other jurisdictions. Some have referred to Hong Kong’s stock trading as the “Nasdaq of… Read More

IPO Fail: It’s Better to Invest Early in Private Markets as Public Offerings are Too Often Just an Exit for Big Money

For years, there has been a discussion regarding the initial public offering (IPO) conundrum. Back in the day, smaller investors could join alongside institutional money to capture wealth in an IPO. Today, too frequently, that is simply not the case. The big money has been… Read More

Diminishing IPOs in US Depriving Average Investors

The President of the Chartered Financial Analyst Institute, Paul Smith, has taken to the media to call out shrinking IPO markets in the US and call for the restoration of fair and secure investment opportunities for retirement savers. Smith points at “alarming changes” in US… Read More

Look in the Mirror: Why the Number of Public Companies & IPOs are in Decline

  The decline in the number of public companies in the United States and the decline in the number of initial public offerings (IPOs) that occur each year are widely decried. It is irony that many who bemoan these changes are the very persons who… Read More

BDO Research Indicates Executives at Investment Banks Don’t Believe Jobs Act Will Increase IPOs

But Majority Are Not Noncerned That Crowdfunding Will Negatively Impact IPOs. BDO – a global accounting and consulting firm has released a report that which show skepticism on the part of executives regarding the intentions of the Jobs Act.   According to their research: Only… Read More

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