Market compliance a small price to pay for access to capital

Market compliance a small price to pay for access to capital
Brent Melville
Access to equity and diversified debt capital should be “top of mind” for boards and executives as companies emerge from the current health crisis, NZX chief executive Mark Peterson says. “The value people will place on having access to equity and the way they think about their balance sheet structures in terms of debt-to-equity ratios will change, so this can be a real opportunity for public markets,” Peterson told a Trans-Tasman Business Circle briefing.  The burden of compliance and a decent set of regulatory obligations that came with...

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