Sponsors will play a key gatekeeping role. The change in the IPO landscape has been accompanied by an increase in the number of licensed sponsor firms, which grew from 75 as at the end of 2012 to 123 today. SFC should not only focus on the amount raised by IPO, but the quality of the listings and trading liquidity.
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