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Cambodia enters global marketplace, stock trading begins

After a string of false starts, Cambodia’s stock market finally started trading on Wednesday, marking a significant step forward for an impoverished country blighted by corruption and scarred by decades of civil war. But on Wednesday, traders were reaping fast gains as the price of ...

http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/04/18/cambodia-bourse-idUSL3E8FH30X20120418

PPWSA edges closer to IPO

As expected, the book-building phase for Phnom Penh Water Supply Authority’s initial public offering was significantly oversubscribed, the estimate being 17 times. Interested investors had the opportunity to bid at a price  no lower than 4,050 riel a share, and at a maximum of 6,350 riel ...

http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2012032855274/Business/ppwsa-edges-closer-to-ipo.html

Cambodia rejoins the world of stocks

Enthusiasm about the start of trading at the exchange, which opened last July without a single listed company, extends beyond the borders of the Southeast Asian country. Investors including Templeton Emerging Markets Group Chairman Mark Mobius said they plan to participate in Cambodia’s stock market ...

http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/business/world-business/cambodia-rejoins-the-world-of-stocks-20120319-1ver3.html

Integration of Southeast Asian Stock Exchanges Hits Snag

Just months before stock exchanges in Southeast Asia plan to link up their trading, key players remain divided, with one top bourse official saying the region may be going through a “reality check” on the many hurdles facing further economic integration. The plan for cross-border trading ...

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203961204577270760343324718.html

More predictions for CSX start date

The Cambodia Securities Exchange may launch as soon as March or April, according to an official at the Korea Exchange, the Kingdom’s partner in launching its stock market. Final preparations for the CSX’s  initial public offerings should be complete at that time, Pat Gil-soo, senior vice-president ...

http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2012011853988/Business/more-predictions-for-csx-start-date.html

Minister directs mock trading; launch unclear

Finance Minister Keat Chhon joined officials of the Cambodia Securities Exchange (CSX) yesterday to conduct another day of mock trading of stocks ahead of the still-unknown launch of actual operations at the bourse, which opened in July but has yet to see a single stock ...

Vietnamese equity fund to open in Cambodia

Dragon Capital, a Vietnam-based private equity firm, has announced that it is planning to launch a fund in Cambodia next year, the second such fund to be announced by a Vietnamese company this year. The firm’s CEO, Dominic Scriven, said that the initial fund would close ...

SMEs not yet ready for CSX

Small and medium-sized enterprises, which are expected to play a key role in the Kingdom’s emergent stock market, are far from ready to list, insiders say. Most important, many SMEs lack the standardisations and controls required of publicly traded companies by the Securities and Exchange Commission ...

http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2011112152859/Business/smes-not-yet-ready-for-csx.html

Sihanoukville Port uncompetitive ahead of listing

Just months before Sihanoukville Autonomous Port is supposed to list on the Cambodia Securities Exchange, officials said yesterday that the state-owned enterprise is still more expensive and slower at processing goods than other ports in the region. An investor said that the problems confronting the port ...

Suspended funds stymie e-commerce law

The drafting of a law on e-commerce that would regulate electronic transfers in Cambodia has been postponed because the World Bank has suspended funds over the government’s handling of land evictions in Phnom Penh. In September, Commerce Minister Cham Prasidh said that the government should aim ...

Private firms plan CSX IPOs

A logistics firm and two garment manufacturers planned to list on the Cambodia Securities Exchange during the second half of 2012, underwriter Phnom Penh Securities said yesterday. The companies are the first known private businesses to confirm their intentions of listing on the Kingdom’s still-dormant bourse. Manufacturing ...

http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2011110352509/Business/private-firms-plan-csx-ipos.html

ACLEDA, Tong Yang sign MoU

Tong Yang Securities (Cambodia) and ACLEDA Securities yesterday signed a memorandum of understanding to partner the services they offer to the Kingdom’s budding financial markets. To expand their footprint in the market,  the companies aimed to provide a combination of advisory and underwriting services for companies ...

http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2011102752376/Business/acleda-tong-yang-sign-mou.html

SBI, Royal to create $50m investment fund

Japanese financial group SBI Holdings Inc announced yesterday that it would launch a $50 million investment fund with The Royal Group to invest in local companies in a wide range of industries. In a statement, SBI Holdings also said that its securities company in Cambodia, SBI ...

Phnom Penh Port to list on bourse by 2013

Phnom Penh Autonomous Port plans to join three other state-owned enterprises in listing on the recently launched Cambodian Securities Exchange, an official said yesterday Hei Bavy, the port’s director general, said that Finance Minister Keat Chhon has spoken to officials at the port, expressing his interest ...

Water Authority Stock Launch May Be Delayed

It is unclear if the Phnom Penh Water Supply Authority will be ready to launch its initial public offering on Nov 11 as planned, the managing director of Tong Yang Securities, the firm preparing the IPO, said yesterday. “Everyone in this IPO are working very ...

http://www.camnet.com.kh/cambodia.daily/

Accounting for the Bourse

Financial experts in the Kingdom yesterday called on the banking sector to implement improved corporate governance and increase transparency in order to ensure confidence in companies ahead of trading on the Cambodian Securities Exchange. Banks in the country have been required to publicly disclose financial ...

http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2011081751090/Business/accounting-for-the-bourse.html

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