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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.
  • Monday, 6 January, 2025
    MicroStrategy Inc.
    If bitcoin is the future, what explains MicroStrategy’s need for speed?

    Accelerating purchases, insider sales, and a rapidly evaporating premium

  • Friday, 27 December, 2024
    On Wall StreetUS banks
    Crypto boom draws in Wall Street banks

    There has been a profound shift in thinking on capital raisings

    Composite image of a Wall St scene with a Bitcoin as a stylised sun
  • Friday, 6 December, 2024
    MicroStrategy Inc.
    MicroStrategy’s secret sauce is volatility, not bitcoin

    Self-reinforcing market forces are creating demand for Michael Saylor’s ‘lottery ticket’ convertible bonds

  • Friday, 29 November, 2024
    Markets InsightMicroStrategy Inc.
    The epic spectacle that is the bitcoin juggernaut MicroStrategy

    Despite massive fundraising plans, the stock is up 450% this year, valuing the company at about $90bn

    Michael Saylor raises his left hand as he makes a point. He is wearing a microphone
  • Tuesday, 12 November, 2024
    Bitcoin
    Examining MicroStrategy’s record-shattering $21bn ATM

    At-the-market equity offering; in-your-face bitcoin evangelism

  • Saturday, 2 November, 2024
    On Wall StreetBoeing Company
    Boeing sets milestone with colossal equity issue

    Bold action signals aerospace giant is trying to take risk of financial distress off the table

    Boeing logo on the side of a Boeing 737 MAX aeroplane
  • Thursday, 24 October, 2024
    IPOs
    Why IPOs lag as markets soar

    It’s another lean year for equity new issues, but might there be signs of life?

  • Wednesday, 16 October, 2024
    Investment Banking
    The problem with 360-degree performance reviews

    Investment banks’ favourite employee evaluation tool is easily gamed and frequently undermined

  • 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 Spring 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

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