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(IPO).  
''Product and software development''.


1.  
(POC).


The first sale of shares by a private company to the public.  
Proof of concept is the stage in product or software development in which it is established that the solution will function as intended.




2.
<span style="color:#4B0082">'''''Banks well advanced in DLT applications'''''</span>


More broadly, the term sometimes refers to offerings of shares to selected institutional investors (also known as a placing) leading to the company's shares being listed on a public market.  
:"Mark Williamson, global COO of FX cash trading and risk management at HSBC, said that 90% of banks are now at proof-of-concept stage for distributed ledger technology (DLT) applications, with HSBC having settled billions of dollars of internal FX transactions on a DLT solution since February 2018."


:''The Treasurer magazine, December 2018 / January 2019, p12''


3.


More broadly still, any corporate activity leading to a company's securities becoming traded in the public markets.
==See also==
*[[COO]]
*[[Distributed ledger]]
*[[Ideation]]
*[[Research & development]]


IPOs are often issued by smaller, younger companies seeking the capital to expand, but can also be used by large privately owned companies looking to become publicly traded.
[[Category:The_business_context]]
 
[[Category:Technology]]
 
== See also ==
* [[Capital]]
* [[Float]]
* [[Flotation]]
* [[Introduction]]
* [[Listing]]
* [[MBO]]
* [[MBI]]
* [[Placing]]
* [[Primary market]]
* [[Private company]]
* [[Private placement]]
* [[Prospectus]]
* [[Rights issue]]
* [[Secondary market]]
* [[Series B]]
* [[Trade sale]]
 
[[Category:Corporate_finance]]

Revision as of 13:24, 2 April 2019

Product and software development.

(POC).

Proof of concept is the stage in product or software development in which it is established that the solution will function as intended.


Banks well advanced in DLT applications

"Mark Williamson, global COO of FX cash trading and risk management at HSBC, said that 90% of banks are now at proof-of-concept stage for distributed ledger technology (DLT) applications, with HSBC having settled billions of dollars of internal FX transactions on a DLT solution since February 2018."
The Treasurer magazine, December 2018 / January 2019, p12


See also

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