This is the company's first set of results since floating on the stock exchange at the end of last year.
And the boom crossed the Atlantic, with UK travel company Lastminute.com, lead by Brent Hoberman and Martha Lane Fox, floating on the London stock market.
Nor does Lloyds' official fall back position, of floating Verde on the stock market, look particularly appealing, because stock-market valuations of banks are lower in relative terms than even what NBNK has offered for Verde.
Unlike certain other hedge-fund managers, though, he has no interest in making another fortune by floating his firm on the stock market.
For example, a floating windows user could monitor a stock ticker in a background window while working on a report in the foreground.
The European Commission is forcing Lloyds to dispose of this operation, which is being rebranded as TSB, to promote competition, and that will still happen - by floating the separated business on the stock market.
In the quarter after first floating shares Swisher paid almost wholly in stock for new acquisitions.
It already has some experience of going public, floating its Hong Kong operations on the territory's stock exchange over a year ago.
For instance, the bank 80% owned by taxpayers, Royal Bank of Scotland, has announced it is floating some of its US business, Citizens, on the stock market and selling a further stake in the insurer Direct Line.
My sources at the Treasury tell me that they are happy with RBS's current proposals to mend itself, which involve shrinking its investment bank and floating a share of its US retail bank, Citizens, on the stock market.
The idea of a consolidated audit trail has been floating around for a while, but got added momentum after the May 6 stock market upheaval.
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