{"id":301535,"date":"2019-11-19T10:50:52","date_gmt":"2019-11-19T05:20:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=301535"},"modified":"2019-11-19T11:06:20","modified_gmt":"2019-11-19T05:36:20","slug":"aramco-banking-on-wealthy-saudis-for-ipo-banks-easing-lending-regulations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/aramco-banking-on-wealthy-saudis-for-ipo-banks-easing-lending-regulations\/","title":{"rendered":"Aramco banking on wealthy Saudis for IPO; banks easing lending regulations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two years ago, when the initial public offering of Saudi oil giant Aramco held the imagination of foreign investors, President Donald Trump felt compelled to publicly lobby for the share sale to happen in America. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWould very much appreciate Saudi Arabia doing their IPO of Aramco with the New York Stock Exchange,\u201d Trump tweeted in November 2017. <\/p>\n<p>Today Saudi Aramco isn\u2019t just shunning New York \u2014 and other international exchanges \u2014 as a listing venue, but has decided it won\u2019t even market the IPO to American, Canadian, European or Japanese investors. Instead, Aramco plans to rely heavily on ultra-wealthy Saudis, many of whom have been pressed to invest, to get the deal done. Saudi banks are loosening lending regulations to allow locals to buy more shares.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two years ago, when the initial public offering of Saudi oil giant Aramco held the imagination of foreign investors, President Donald Trump felt compelled to publicly lobby for the share sale to happen in America. \u201cWould very much appreciate Saudi Arabia doing their IPO of Aramco with the New York Stock Exchange,\u201d Trump tweeted in November 2017. Today Saudi Aramco isn\u2019t just shunning New York \u2014 and other international exchanges \u2014 as a listing venue, but has decided it won\u2019t even market the IPO to American, Canadian, European or Japanese investors. Instead, Aramco plans to rely heavily on ultra-wealthy Saudis, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[135,130,169],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-301535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-business-standard-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301535","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=301535"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301535\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=301535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=301535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=301535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}