Euronext plans small companies exchange - the 'Entrepreneurs' Exchange'

A new pan-European stock exchange for entrepreneurs is being planned by NYSE Euronext to plug the gap in funding for small companies and help them raise money from investors more easily.

The exchange - dubbed the "Entrepreneurs' Exchange" by NYSE Euronext - will facilitate fundraising via issues of bonds as well as equity. Companies would carry out both initial public offerings of shares and initial bond offerings, and even a "Pre-IPO" of convertibles, that is investments that would in time convert from bonds into equities ... READ MORE

Released by the Financial Times - 5 August 2012