{"id":27817,"date":"2026-01-12T08:05:43","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T00:05:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=27817"},"modified":"2026-01-12T08:05:43","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T00:05:43","slug":"one-of-the-best-years-ever-dbs-equities-head-sees-buoyant-2026-for-singapore-ipos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=27817","title":{"rendered":"\u2018One of the best years ever\u2019: DBS\u2019 equities head sees buoyant 2026 for Singapore IPOs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<p>Art Karoonyavanich says the bank is involved with \u2018quite a number\u2019 of companies that could go public this year<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"article-body-container\">\n<p class=\"whitespace-pre-wrap break-words mb-4 md:mb-6\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-component\">[SINGAPORE] Initial public offering (IPO) volumes on the Singapore bourse in 2026 could be \u201csubstantially much more\u201d than the level set in 2017 \u2013 the strongest year for listings in the last decade \u2013 said Art Karoonyavanich, managing director and global head of equity capital markets at DBS.<\/p>\n<p class=\"whitespace-pre-wrap break-words mb-4 md:mb-6\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-component\">\u201cIf you look at 2026, the volume will likely be better \u2013 (perhaps) one of the best years ever, in terms of IPO volume for Singapore,\u201d he told <em>The Business Times<\/em> in a recent interview.<\/p>\n<p class=\"whitespace-pre-wrap break-words mb-4 md:mb-6\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-component\">The Singapore Exchange (SGX) raised US$4.4 billion in IPO proceeds from 36 listings in 2017, Bloomberg data indicated, a level that has not been matched in the past decade.<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"article-btg-newsletter-component\" data-section-name=\"newsletter\" data-section-label=\"decoding asia 2\" class=\"track-impression border-t border-gray-175 py-3\">\n<div>\n<p class=\"font-lucida text-xl font-medium italic leading-normal -tracking-5% text-gray-850\">Decoding Asia newsletter: your guide to navigating Asia in a new global order. <span class=\"inline border-none p-0 font-lucida text-inherit text-xl font-medium italic leading-normal !-tracking-5% text-verticals-btblue !underline outline-none\">Sign up here to get Decoding Asia newsletter.<\/span> Delivered to your inbox. Free.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.businesstimes.com.sg\/companies-markets\/one-best-years-ever-dbs-equities-head-sees-buoyant-2026-singapore-ipos\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Art Karoonyavanich says the bank is involved with \u2018quite a number\u2019 of companies that could go public this year [SINGAPORE] Initial public offering (IPO) volumes&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":27818,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2611],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-buzz-headlines","wpcat-2611-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27817","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27817"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27817\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/27818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}