
Why India has become the world's most watched IPO market in 2026
The headlines are screaming about record-breaking volumes, but the view from the trenches is more nuanced.

The headlines are screaming about record-breaking volumes, but the view from the trenches is more nuanced.

Vietnam’s listing window is open and the calendar is unforgiving. The FTSE Russell first tranche is dated 21 September 2026. Decree 245/2025 has compressed the regulatory timetable. Cornerstone investors and FTSE-benchmarked funds are already calibrating their Vietnam allocations. The issuers who close inside the window are the ones whose readiness work was done before the bookrunner walked through the door — not after. This is the field guide I wish every Vietnamese issuer had on the desk at kick-off. Forty items, organised across five workstreams. None of them are surprising. All of them are the difference between a clean diligence cycle and a re-cut timetable.

Vietnam’s IPO Window Is Opening: What the FTSE EM Upgrade Means for Capital Markets in 2026. Vietnam is on the cusp of the most consequential capital-markets reset in its 25-year exchange history. The FTSE Russell reclassification to Secondary Emerging Market becomes effective on 21 September 2026, the KRX-powered trading platform is now live, Decree 245/2025 is rewriting the IPO rulebook, and a Central Counterparty (CCP) clearing model is on track for the first quarter of 2027. For issuers, advisers, and global brokers, this is the year to get IPO-ready.

Expect a growing range of opportunities to hit the bourse as Middle Eastern economies diversify.

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COVID saw much IPO activity put on ice amid uncertainty – and understandably so. But despite the volatile conditions, we are now seeing a number of major IPOs on the runway.

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New IPO deals commencing increased by 33% this quarter (QoQ), despite a decrease of 74% over the full financial year (YoY).

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