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Interactive: A tale of two stock markets: SGX and HKEX in charts
The fate of Singapore’s equities scene hangs in the balance, even amid new listing prospects, an equities market review and heightened interest from Chinese firms
Published Fri, Jul 4, 2025 · 11:05 AM
[SINGAPORE] Singapore’s market is weathering a listing drought while its rival bourse up north, the Hong Kong stock exchange, is on fire - on track to becoming the world’s top initial public offering (IPO) venue in 2025.
Nearly 100 companies could raise as much as HK$220 billion (S$35.7 billion) there, PricewaterhouseCoopers estimated.
The Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited (HKEX) enjoyed a bumper crop of 149 IPO applications in the year to date up till May, almost double the number from the year-ago period.
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