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Craig Coben

Craig Coben is a former global head of equity capital markets at Bank of America. He is now a managing director at Seda Experts and a contributing writer for FT Alphaville.
  • Tuesday, 17 September, 2024
    Markets InsightEuropean banks
    The questions over Commerzbank’s stake sale

    Deal is a textbook example of how not to create price tension in a capital markets offering

    Commerzbank’s logo on the side of its headquarters in Frankfurt
  • Friday, 13 September, 2024
    Investment Banking
    High pressure, long days, crushing workloads: why is investment banking like this?

    Bespoke banking can never be nine-to-five

  • Thursday, 1 August, 2024
    FT AlphavilleIPOs
    Ackman’s quixotic IPO is over – for now

    Ack-man of La Mancha

  • Monday, 29 July, 2024
    US & Canadian companies
    Bill Ackman’s four unfortunate IPO snafus

    No Go! No Go! Ackman

  • Monday, 24 June, 2024
    UK equities
    UK listing reform is too important to be stalled by small stakeholders

    Dual-class struggles

  • Tuesday, 18 June, 2024
    IPOs
    Caution kills the Golden Goose IPO

    Investors can't be sold the ‘Permira discount’

  • Monday, 3 June, 2024
    Markets InsightUK equities
    Is the London market regaining its fundraising mojo?

    After the election British policymakers urgently need to jump-start the City’s capital-raising engine

    A montage showing an LSEG logo, Monzo card, Shein runway and De Beers jewellery
  • Monday, 27 May, 2024
    National Grid PLC
    The power plays behind National Grid’s easy-money cash call

    There’s no fight for your rights

  • Wednesday, 15 May, 2024
    IPOs
    Geely’s US float is self-driving

    Attention Zeekr

  • Monday, 29 April, 2024
    IPOs
    Why CVC’s IPO was such a hit

    Top-tier asset, cheap pricing, savvy tactics. And balloons

  • Monday, 15 April, 2024
    Investment research
    Sorry, rebundling research isn’t going to work

    We’re Miffed Too

  • Saturday, 13 April, 2024
    IPOs
    A tale of two IPOs

    Recent flotations of Galderma and Douglas underscore that fund managers are still being selective

    Douglas make-up removing product on display in a store
  • Thursday, 14 March, 2024
    European companies
    Will Douglas IPO be a dog or a darling?

    Tricky exits

    Three actors, each sitting in a corner of a room, enacting Sartre’s 1944 play No Exit
  • Tuesday, 12 March, 2024
    Reddit Inc
    Reddit is casting aside community spirit in search of financial maturity

    A conservative directed-share program on its IPO risks leaving the Redditor army feeling left out

  • Wednesday, 6 March, 2024
    UK Budget 2024
    An empty Budget for the City

    ‘Inconsequential, parochial and mildly protectionist’

  • Wednesday, 28 February, 2024
    IPOs
    Shein’s London IPO flirtation

    Tactical trial balloon or a real possibility?

  • Monday, 26 February, 2024
    US banks
    When Wall Street’s co-heads cannot cohabitate

    More Goldman drama

  • Saturday, 17 February, 2024
    On Wall StreetIPOs
    Skyrocketing Arm share price shows need for UK reform

    Loss of chip company listing to New York shows why it’s time to revive London as an IPO venue

    Rene Haas, chief executive officer of Arm Ltd
  • Monday, 12 February, 2024
    IPOs
    Do independent advisers help or hinder IPOs?

    Placebo Advisers

  • Monday, 29 January, 2024
    Special purpose acquisition companies
    New SEC rules on Spacs shut the barn door after horses have bolted

    It’s too late, Gary, now it’s too late

  • Monday, 15 January, 2024
    US & Canadian companies
    Morgan Stanley got off lightly

    Block trade probe found serious misconduct but results in slap on the wrist

  • Tuesday, 9 January, 2024
    IPOs
    Can private equity and public investors reconcile?

    IPO deal recovery hinges on bridging the valuation gap

  • Tuesday, 2 January, 2024
    IPOs
    Scrutinising the UK’s new ‘match fit’ listing rule book

    Timing is everything (except for the FCA)

  • Monday, 27 November, 2023
    Investment Banking
    What Hong Kong’s banker malaise signifies

    Not just a cyclical blip?

  • Thursday, 23 November, 2023
    UK Budget
    The damp squib Statement

    Well that was a let-down

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