IPO market could stir from slumber in H2
M&A activity likely to keep pace, given access to easy credit
[SINGAPORE] A breezy access to favourable funding, and a shift from yield play may have lured listing candidates away, but pent-up demand could revive the initial public offering (IPO) market here in the second half of the year, bankers say.
So far this year, there have been just two mainboard IPOs, which raised a total of about $735 million, data compiled by BT showed. The same time last year, six mainboard listings raised $3.5 billion from their IPOs.
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