Mining minnow's float to cap off a remarkable year for IPOs Save Normal text size Advertisement Tech darling Nuix may have been the star of the ASX's initial public offerings (IPO) this year but it will be a humble mining minnow, BPM Minerals, that will cap off a remarkable year for floats which has seen $5.2 billion raised from investors. While the ASX is yet to finish tallying the official numbers, it expects 2020 to end with as many as 115 companies making their stock market debut, compared to just 92 last year despite COVID smothering the market for most of the first half.