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Meet the latest IPO fad: Grills
The searing market for newly public companies has a new obsession: grills. Two leading sellers of outdoor grills and grilling…
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A Tech IPO Boom Is Coming to Unicorn-Rich India
NEW DELHI—India is gearing up for tech IPOs, including two worth more than $1 billion, as startups look to tap…
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Will Robinhood’s IPO be a boom or bust?
Robinhood Markets likes to give away free shares to attract new customers. Its public offering to investors is a different…
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London ranks top for European IPOs in bumper start to 2021
The London Stock Exchange has clung on to its title as the top performing European exchange for IPOs, despite a…
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Robinhood aims for $35bn valuation in IPO
Robinhood Markets, the zero-commission investment app, has set terms for its much anticipated initial public offering. Robinhood said on 19 July…
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Bill Ackman’s Spac is ditching the deal to acquire a 10% stake in Universal Music
Pershing Square Tontine Holdings, a blank-cheque company led by hedge-fund manager William Ackman, said it won’t proceed with its proposed…
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Wall Street bankers shine again as record fees offset trading slump
Wall Street banks have benefited from a boom in dealmaking, hauling in record fees in the second quarter as the…
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The UK has a strong hand to play but needs repositioning first
Sceptics have long argued that the UK is past its peak and trading largely on former glories. They point to…
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EU watchdog warns Spacs ‘not appropriate’ for everyone
The European Union’s markets watchdog has warned that investments in so-called blank cheque companies “may not be appropriate… for all”. The…
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Spacs take a backseat as traditional IPOs boom globally in second quarter
Listings of special purpose acquisition companies slowed in the second quarter with traditional initial public offerings booming worldwide, overtaking the…
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TikTok owner ditched IPO plans on Chinese regulators’ data security fears
ByteDance, the Chinese owner of popular short-video app TikTok, put on hold indefinitely its intentions to list offshore earlier this…
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Citigroup leads $6bn Spac fee haul for investment banks
Investment banks have pulled in nearly $6bn in fees advising on blank-cheque companies in 2021, nearly double the record set…
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View: Want to list your weed company? You’ll have to get past the FCA first
If someone told you they wanted to list their cannabis business on the stock market, you would be tempted to throw…
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Robinhood IPO to get cold shoulder from Reddit’s meme-stock army
Armchair retail traders are divided ahead of the upcoming flotation for stock investing app Robinhood, as users who once piled…
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Robinhood’s crypto unit provisions for $10m fine over cyber, money-laundering breaches
The cryptocurrency brokerage of Robinhood Markets expects to pay New York regulators a penalty of at least $10m for allegedly…
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Financial restatements are cooling Spac activity
More than 540 companies have restated their financial accounts in the past three months, higher than every full year since…
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Neighbourhood social media app Nextdoor plans for Spac merger
Nextdoor is merging with a special-purpose acquisition company to go public in a deal valuing the social-media network at roughly…
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View: Politicians interfering in IPOs is a recipe for disaster
If you wanted to show that London is open for business after Brexit, there are better ways to do it…
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Robinhood files IPO on meme stock surge
Robinhood Markets unveiled striking growth figures Thursday in the paperwork for its long-awaited initial public offering — and a long…
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Torrid IPO: 5 things to know about the plus-size retailer as it hits public markets
Shares of Torrid Holdings Inc., which says it’s North America’s largest direct-to-consumer provider of women’s plus-size clothing and intimates by…
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Robinhood to pay $70m in settlement with watchdog
Robinhood Financial LLC has agreed to pay nearly $70m to resolve sweeping regulatory allegations that the brokerage misled customers, approved…
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Robinhood pays record fine to Finra, settling probe into options trading issues and technology outages
When Robinhood files its IPO paperwork as expected in the coming weeks, it might want to leave “paid biggest Finra…
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Green blank-cheque companies struggle after years of success
Spacs and green companies were two of the hottest pandemic investments. Combining the two — green Spacs — has been…
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Zaoui brothers plan €300m European blank cheque company
Dealmaking brothers Yoël and Michael Zaoui are the latest high-profile bankers to launch a blank cheque company, with plans to list…
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FCA looks to open listing rules again in post-Brexit battle for IPOs
The City regulator is looking to remove barriers for companies to list in London as the English capital fights to…
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Why tech startups should be wary of the Spac and IPO craze
The vibrant market in Europe for initial public offerings is a cause for celebration and shows just how far the…
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Private equity firm Bridgepoint plans London IPO
Private equity firm Bridgepoint said it plans to undertake an initial public offering on the London Stock Exchange. In a…
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