Since 2012, the Finnish initial public offering (IPO) market has
been developing extremely well, following what was approximately
five years of stagnation.
The Helsinki Stock Exchange is operated by Nasdaq Helsinki, a
company belonging to the US corporation Nasdaq, which operates 26
markets worldwide.3 In addition to Nasdaq Helsinki, Nasdaq operates
exchanges in the Nordic countries: Sweden (in Stockholm), Denmark
(in Copenhagen) and Iceland (in Reykjavik). On 31 December 2018,
the number of listed companies on the regulated markets of the
above-mentioned Nordic exchanges totalled 606 (excluding 10
multiple listings), and the number of companies admitted to trading
on the alternative marketplaces operated by Nasdaq in the Nordic
region was 342.4
