Access to finance and achieving the right finance strategy, is critical to enabling expansion and growth for business.  

This session will explore utilisation of the capital markets as an alternative funding vehicle for high growth companies. Our panel will provide insights from Euronext, issuers and bankers on the various listing venues available, trends and opportunities.

Given some of the challenges for high growth companies in accessing finance, our panel will discuss the opportunities offered via the capital markets as a growth tool. This will include an overview of some of the programmes offered by the exchanges which support businesses to gain a comprehensive understanding of how to raise strategic finance e.g. the Euronext TechShare and IPO ready programmes.

We will also hear the success stories of an issuer who has successfully used the capital markets as a source of raising finance for specific projects and what their strategic rationale for utilising this route was.

In addition, we will provide global insights from practitioners, both bankers and current and former officers of the Capital Markets Forum,  on trends and developments they are seeing as regards alternative listing venues. We will discuss what are the preparatory steps that should be undertaken before exploring such a listing and in particular, how practitioners can support their clients in becoming IPO-ready.