In an interview with Gulf News this week, chairman of the Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC), Anis Al Jallaf announced that the launch of the Dubai International Financial Exchange (DIFX) has been postponed from the first quarter of 2005 to the third.
He also revealed that the exchange will be regulated in such a way as to allow companies which list on it to determine the portion of shares that they want to offer to the investing public.
"If companies aspiring to list on DIFX want to offer only 10% of...shares to the public, they will have a free hand to do so. If they want to offer 75 percent, they can very well do that too. We will not dictate (to) the firms on the level of public offering."
According to Gulf News, this flexibility is designed to encourage family-owned businesses and government entities discouraged by the current UAE lower listing limit of 55% to list on the bourse.
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