Turkey: Not the year of the IPO

Turkey’s IPO market has disappointed this year. The wrong deals were sold at the wrong prices, leaving a bad taste in investors’ mouths. Can the lessons be learnt to ensure next years’ big pipeline gets completed? Nick Lord reports.

IT WAS NOT meant to be like this. With much fanfare, 2010 was declared ‘The year of the IPO’ by the Turkish authorities. The main protagonists – the Istanbul Stock Exchange (ISE) and the main securities regulator, the Capital Market Board (CMB) – set themselves an ambitious target at the beginning of the year, aiming to get 50 listings completed by the end of 2010. However so far, with two months to go, only 15 IPOs have been completed (although another 10 have filed to list).

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