Germany's defunct Neuer Markt also had continental aims before it imploded (see article).
Why else would he be mulling his own tech market, the Neuer Markt, as a listing venue?
Furthermore, its new market for growth shares, the Neuer Markt, is luring regional start-ups away from their local exchanges.
Besides the Neuer Markt, stock exchanges in Britain, France, Belgium, the Netherlands and Ireland all have launched small-company markets.
High-flying stocks on the Neuer Markt, Germany's version of Nasdaq, spawned two new billionaires this year--Thomas Haffa and Karl Schmidt.
Indeed, by providing a reality check, the recent troubles of the Neuer Markt might even do Germany's equity culture some good.
Then, the company announced its intention to list on the Neuer Markt.
Tokyo's Mothers exchange and Hong Kong's GEMS market never lived up to their promise and suffered from the same rash of not-ready-for-prime-time listings as the Neuer Markt.
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Frankfurt's Neuer Markt exchange, which has had some success in bringing young companies to the market, and in attracting new equity investors, has done so by ditching traditional rules.
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Consors has enough confidence in the durability of the new brand of German finance to have launched an investment-banking subsidiary this week, specialising in new issues on the Neuer Markt.
This March Mobilcom, a telecommunications company backed by 3i and the venture-capital subsidiary of Commerzbank, among others, became the first firm to list on Germany's new small-company stock exchange, the Neuer Markt.
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