Investors cheer as pandemic forces IPO acceleration

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Investors cheer as pandemic forces IPO acceleration

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The coronavirus pandemic may have inadvertently solved one of the longest-running complaints about Europe’s equity capital markets: the time it takes to do an IPO. And many in the market hope this is a permanent change, write Sam Kerr and Aidan Gregory.

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