Taiwan’s capital markets malaise

A falling number of corporates are choosing to list on the Taiwan Stock Exchange. Given the dire after-market performance of Aslan Pharmaceuticals, it is not hard to see why.

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Taipei is not the place you go to complete big equity capital markets transactions,
wherever you come from


When Aslan Pharmaceuticals cast around for the right place to sell shares earlier this year, it did not choose Hong Kong, nor its hometown of Singapore, nor even mainland China’s two leading bourses, but Taiwan.

Aslan’s chief executive Carl Firth, a former head of Asia healthcare investment banking at Bank of America Merrill Lynch, was convinced it was the right decision.

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