Deutsche Brse and KfW Mittelstandsbank have jointly opened the German Equity Forum in Frankfurt am Main for the twelfth time. The capital market conference runs from 10 12 November, and is the worlds largest information and network platform for companies seeking equity capital.
“Only those with adequate equity can take a chance in globalization,” says Reto Francioni, Deutsche Brse CEO. “Equity is essential in order to expand production capacities, to rise research and development budgets and to improve international presence.”
“One of KfW-Mittelstandsbanks key tasks is strengthening the equity capital market for small and medium-sized companies (SMEs),” says Wolfgang Kroh, member of the board of managing directors of the KfW Banking Group. “Particularly in the current environment, it is important to prevent the lack of capital from stopping up-and-coming growth companies from transforming their ideas into marketable products. Strengthening the equity resources of SMEs must therefore be high on the development policy agenda, along with adequate provision of debt financing for them.”
The Equity Forum offers the participants, numbering some 5,000, panel discussions, presentations and workshops on corporate financing and capital market regulation. International companies from China, Russia and the CIS, India and Bulgaria will introduce themselves in country forums. Around 210 listed companies will be presenting their Q3 results at investor and analyst conferences. More than 50 non-listed companies will use the three-day forum to present their business models to a broad group of venture capital and private equity investors.
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