Insights
Expert insight on market sounding, bookbuilding, share allocations and trade confirmations, to keep you up to date on deal management best practice.
7 min read
The FCA rarely fines anyone over a market sounding, but it keeps publishing what it finds. What the Punch Taverns case and the regulator's reviews tell an ECM desk.
6 min read
An accelerated bookbuild squeezes soundings, the book, allocations and confirmations into a day or two. Where the record slips under that pressure, and how to keep it.
5 min read
A practical guide to the records UK MAR expects a disclosing market participant to keep for every market sounding, and where manual processes leave the gaps.
4 min read
A step-by-step look at where an ECM desk's hours go on a typical placing, from the target list to trade confirmations, and which of them are pure re-keying.
2 min read
Secondary placings leave little room for manual process. How automation cuts risk and time across sounding, wall-crossing, bookbuilding and settlement.
3 min read
Why manual wall-crossing is so error-prone, what it really costs, and how automated consent, live tracking and audit trails take the human error out.
4 min read
How to manage market soundings with confidence, control and full compliance, and where DealBridge takes the manual risk out of each step.
15 min read
Sound controls and best practice for market soundings and wall-crossings, covering the rules, who is responsible for what, and the controls that manage the risk.
4 min read
What market sounding is, how wall-crossing works under the Market Abuse Regulation, and the regulatory points issuers and advisers need to get right.
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