Nordic region merchant acquirer and cardholder account processor Nets launched as a publicly traded company on Nasdaq Copenhagen on September 23, 2016. The initial public offering (IPO) amounted to more than 52% of the equity in the company. Shares were sold by U.S.-based private equity firms Advent International and Bain Capital and Denmark-based pension fund ATP. Those entities bought Nets for $3.10 billion from banks in the Nordic region including Danske Bank, Nordea, DNB, and the central bank of Denmark in March 2014. Proceeds from the sale of 105 million shares in the IPO were used pri...