MainstreamBPO to IPO
Third-party financial services administrator MainstreamBPO has announced that it is looking to list on the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX).
The company announced today that it had appointed Bligh Capital to advise and lead manage the listing with Sekel Oshry as the legal adviser.
The move to a public listing comes after nine years of existence for Mainstream BPO which was established in 2006 by Byram Johnston and Martin Smith utilising DST technology.
Its major step forward came in 2012 when it acquired Perpetual's Australian registry business.
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