Equity Issuance
What is Equity Issuance
In the financial markets, equity issuance is a fundamental process, and it serves as a primary process for companies to raise capital. By offering shares to investors through equity issuance companies can secure important funding for daily operations, business expansion, or investments in new projects. This process provides companies with the capital needed and make investors part-owners of the company, allowing them to benefit from its potential growth.
Equity issuance enhances market liquidity by boosting the volume of available shares for trading in the broader financial markets. It allows investors to invest in a wide range of companies to diversify their portfolios. This supports price discovery and promotes efficient capital allocation.
Equity Bookbuild: Successfully Execute Equity Deals
For issuers, investment banks and investors, successful deal execution relies on many critical factors, including precise order entry, strict regulatory adherence, unequivocal price discovery, fair allocation practices and more.
The Equity Bookbuild (EBB) platform allows capital markets professionals to execute deals more efficiently. This web-based execution platform for the primary equity issuance process manages all components of the deal lifecycle, including marketing, syndicate collaboration, order and allocation management, and post-settlement activities.
Equity Bookbuild Key Features
Market Analysis and Insights
The primary goal of market analysis and insights is to equip companies with a thorough understanding of current market conditions and investor sentiment. This understanding is crucial for making informed decisions about the timing and structure of equity issuance.
Regulatory Compliance Support
Navigating the complex regulatory landscape is a significant challenge for companies during equity issuance. The objective of regulatory compliance support is to assist companies in ensuring compliance and reducing legal risks.
Investor Targeting and Engagement
The objective of investor targeting and engagement is to facilitate the identification and engagement of potential investors based on their preferences and investment history. This targeted approach enhances the effectiveness of equity issuance.
Pricing and Valuation Tools
Pricing and valuation tools are essential for determining the optimal price range for shares, considering market conditions and company performance. Accurate pricing is crucial for the success of equity issuance.
Transaction Management and Execution
The objective of transaction management and execution is to ensure the smooth execution of the equity issuance process through comprehensive transaction management capabilities.
Post-Issuance Support and Analysis
Post-issuance support and analysis provide ongoing support and analysis to assess the impact of the issuance on the company's financial performance and market position.
Equity Bookbuild Key Benefits
Joint bank operability
A unique process identifies and reconciles joint institutional orders, enabling an extensive global network of banks to communicate and share deal information on a real-time basis.
Comprehensive functionality
Manage the equities primary issuance process from origination to post-settlement and achieve greater efficiency from end to end with straight-through processing.
Data integration
Analyze investor activity and fulfillment alongside orders and allocations with a set of ancillary modules that incorporate events, compliance, prospectus and issuer solutions.
Enriched analytics
Support thoughtful allocations and healthy aftermarket performance with extensive data sets for price thresholds, drop-off levels, demand build-up, hit ratios and more that can be visualized in dashboards and extracted for further analysis.
Related Equity Issuance Products and Solutions
Retail Bookbuild (RBB)
This web-based, EBB-compatible application enables financial advisors to manage and execute global new-issue inventory across equity, debt, municipal and structured security types.
IssuerView
Designed for corporate management teams and investment bankers, IssuerView provides real-time access to data and documents during live marketed transactions.
Transaction Services
Transaction services and institutional transaction reports provide the information you need to advise issuers of IPO activity and assist in pricing blocks and accelerated offerings.
iProspectus
This regulatory compliant, multi-asset class solution provides full-service electronic delivery and tracking of deal-related documents for new issue transactions.
iCompliance
This service fully automates the outreach, collection, validation, and mapping of suitability certificates for client trading accounts.
Equity Deals Database
Make better business decisions with comprehensive, accurate, and up-to-date global equity deals data, offering street deal calendars, league tables and decades of data for deep analysis.
IssueNet
Connect bookbuilding systems across multiple banks, facilitating real-time syndicate collaboration and reconciliation.
Fixed Income Issuance Solutions
Open and interoperable solutions for the fixed income primary bond market increase efficiency, reduce operational risk and allow deals to execute faster than ever before.
Municipal Bond Issuance Solutions
Efficient workflows, comprehensive content and analytics support the municipal bond issuance process and facilitate interactions for the buy side and sell side in the municipal capital markets.
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