[1] The market consists of venture capital firms, private equity firms, development banks, investment banks and stock exchanges.
Equity capital market practitioners, traditionally advise on a full range of equity, debt equity-linked, hybrid, asset-backed, credit-linked and derivative products that are offered in capital markets.
In an equity capital market (ECM) financial institutions help companies raise funds for growth and development.
[4] In corporate finance, Equity Capital Market is an investment banking activity consisting in advising companies, also referred to as issuers, to raise equity on capital markets.
Equity securities placed by an ECM desk can range from common shares to convertible bonds into shares, the latter sometimes designed as Equity-Linked Capital Market.