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A planned US$66 billion merger between British semiconductor company Arm Ltd. and American hardware company Nvidia is cancelled after facing regulatory pressures from the United States, the European Union, the United Kingdom, and China. Arm says that it will instead go public sometime before March 2023. If the deal were successful, it would have been the largest merger in the history of the semiconductor industry.
2022-02-8

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission approves new rules that will allow companies that wish to raise capital, and be listed on the New York Stock Exchange, to use direct listings instead of IPOs.
2020-08-26

Ant files for an initial public offering of at least 10% of its capital in new shares on the Shanghai and Hong Kong stock exchanges.
2020-08-25

Saudi Aramco announces it will go public on the Riyadh stock exchange, with shares totalling up to two percent of the firm's worth made available at its IPO launch. Valued at US$1.2 trillion, the company is being partially privatized to reduce the kingdom's economic dependence on oil.
2019-11-3

Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba Group lists on NYSE in one of the largest initial public offerings in history.
2014-09-19

Four of Wall Street's market makers involved in Facebook's botched IPO are expecting losses from technical glitches to be around US$115 million.
2012-05-29

The Securities Division of the government of Massachusetts subpoenas financial services firm Morgan Stanley (MS), in connection with an MS analyst's talks with institutional investors prior to the Facebook initial public offering.
2012-05-22

The social network Facebook holds an initial public offering and closes nearly flat at $38.23 a share.
2012-05-18

The social network Facebook files for an initial public offering.
2012-02-1

Auto maker General Motors is listed again on the New York Stock Exchange in the biggest Initial public offering in United States history.
2010-11-18