{"id":7574,"date":"2011-04-08T09:02:23","date_gmt":"2011-04-08T13:02:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=7574"},"modified":"2011-04-08T09:02:23","modified_gmt":"2011-04-08T13:02:23","slug":"bahamian-capital-markets-have-far-to-go","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2011\/04\/bahamian-capital-markets-have-far-to-go","title":{"rendered":"Bahamian Capital Markets Have Far To Go"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Anderson, RoyalFidelity Merchant Bank &amp; Trust&#8217;s president, said the Bahamian capital markets are still &#8220;far away from where we need to be&#8221;, despite the seeming early success of the Commonwealth Brewery initial public offering (IPO), which had attracted $36 million in subscriptions &#8211; some 57.6 per cent of the total amount sought &#8211; by Tuesday this week.<\/p>\n<p>He said that while the Bahamian capital markets had &#8220;made a lot of headway&#8221; in comparison to where they were in the mid-1990s, all sector participants now needed to come together again to fix issues such as liquidity and chart a long-term direction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A leading investment banker has said that the Bahamian capital markets are still &#8220;far away from where we need to be&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10223285771444175_51037792744":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[87,153,98,47],"class_list":["post-7574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-headlines","tag-banking","tag-business-2","tag-financial","tag-investing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7574","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7574"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7574\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}