Top 10 IPOs in stock mkt

Here are the largest IPOs to date, according to the research firm Dealogic:

1 - AgBank: The Agricultural Bank of China raised $22.117 billion in its 2010 IPO in Hong Kong and Shanghai.

2 - ICBC: Another Chinese financial group, Industrial and Commercial Bank of China, held its 2006 IPO in Hong Kong and China, raising $21.929 billion.

3 - AIA Group: The Asian unit of US insurance group AIG raised $20.494 billion in its 2010 Hong Kong IPO.

4 - Visa Inc: The US payment and credit card issuer raised $19.650 billion in a 2008 IPO in New York.

5 - NTT DoCoMo: The Japanese mobile carrier, raised $18.379 billion in Tokyo in 1998.

6 - General Motors: The US auto giant, after emerging from bankruptcy, took in $18.140 billion in 2010 in an IPO in New York and Toronto.

7 - Enel: The Italian energy group raised $17.4 billion in a 1999 IPO in Milan and New York.

8 - Facebook: The US social network in 2012 raised $16 billion.

9 - NTT: Japan's former state-owned telecom group raised $13.6 billion in 1986 in Tokyo.

10 - Deutsche Telekom: Germany's big telecom carrier, in an IPO in Frankfurt, New York and Tokyo, raised $13 billion.

    — AFP

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