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Central Asia's IPO market is busy and investors are asking harder questions. Here are the four things they check first, and how to get your company ready.

If you run a company in Tashkent, Almaty or Baku and you have been told more than once that your financing request is "interesting but not bankable right now," the problem is usually not your business. It is the way the request was packaged. We see the same four patterns block otherwise fundable deals. 1. Financials that international banks cannot read. Local statutory accounts are prepared for the tax authority, not for a credit committee in Frankfurt or Dubai. Without an IF