NYSE’s Martin Sees ‘Tremendous’ IPO Activity in Coming Weeks

NYSE Group Inc. President Lynn Martin expects “tremendous” activity for initial public offerings in the coming weeks, in a widely anticipated comeback after a muted period for IPOs in the past few years.

“We have a deal on the road at the moment, we have another deal going next week,” Martin said in an interview with Bloomberg TV on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum’s annual meeting in Davos on Wednesday. “We really see it towards the back end of Q1 into Q2,” with many firms targeting public market debuts then.

IPO activity has declined in recent years ...