Going Private2 Sep 2019 09:52
"Since the peak in 1996 the number of businesses listed in the US has almost halved. The decline in the UK came later and has been less pronounced, but the trend is unmistakable. The stock of UK-listed business has fallen by well over a quarter since the peak in 2006. A significant factor in the growth of private markets is simply that debt is cheaper than equity. Ultra-low interest rates and huge injections of capital into the system via quantitative easing have pushed market interest rates to record lows. Robert Buckland, Chief Equity Strategist at Citigroup, estimates that the cost of debt for US companies is around 3.0%, less than half the 7.0% cost of equity." (Deloitte - 02/09/2019).
Albert Tech cancelled its AIM listing on 29/08/2019 and I believe that this is the route that Cyan is going to take (soon).