Twelve Wall Street firms are in the early stages of developing a single trading portal alliance platform, operated by Nasdaq, for all 144a securities. The companies hope the platform will bring liquidity and transparency to the 144a market, which has been associated with unregistered, opaque trading.
“With the advent of a more transparent and efficient private placement market, Latin American and other companies considering a traditional IPO have an attractive new option to gain faster, simpler, less expensive access to the capital they require,” says John Jacobs, an executive vice-president at Nasdaq.
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