If it should go ahead, a Fortress offering would be the first public listing of its kind.

Some experts said the public listings should improve the governing of the Chinese banks.

The public listing was the first of several major announcements for the company over the next 18 months.

Bankers are busy now trying to think of a new way to structure a public listing, should the market open up.

As of February 2012, it has started restructuring to prepare the company for public listing.

He did this through a public listing on the site.

Essentially, they bought a public listing for $400,000, taking over a shell company.

They took that company to a successful public listing and Adams became a millionaire in the process.

Some are so fearful of identity theft or abuse that they will not even reveal information already known about them in public listings.

"I think these two public listings are evidence of this."