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              London fights for its future

              • Thursday, 19 December, 2024
                UK equities
                London’s loss of stock market lustre is a question of liquidity Premium content

                Many of the popular arguments for leaving the LSE are weaker than they sound

                London Stock Exchange
              • Thursday, 19 December, 2024
                Rio Tinto PLC
                Activist Palliser seeks to force Rio Tinto into reviewing London listing

                Investor cites ‘irrefutable’ case to abandon miner’s dual-listed structure

                A Rio Tinto logo on a smartphone
              • Monday, 16 December, 2024
                Groupe Canal+
                Canal+ shares slump a fifth on disappointing London debut

                UK chancellor Rachel Reeves had hailed listing as vote of confidence in market

                A Canal+ logo
              • Sunday, 15 December, 2024
                UK equities
                London Stock Exchange suffers biggest exodus since financial crisis

                Main market set for fewest listings in 15 years as allure of New York grows despite planned UK reforms

                A montage showing the London Stock Exchange, the New York Stock Exchange and the logos of Flutter, Ashtead, CRH and Smurfit Kappa
              • Wednesday, 11 December, 2024
                Executive Pay
                Pay UK bosses like football stars, says Lord Spencer

                Founder of ICAP claims boosting chief executives’ salaries would help London’s competitiveness

                Lord Michael Spencer
              • Tuesday, 10 December, 2024
                Ashtead Group PLC
                Ashtead plans to move listing to New York in fresh blow to London

                Construction equipment group generates most of its profits in North America

                A Sunbelt digger
              • Friday, 15 November, 2024
                News in-depthGroupe Canal+
                London’s snaring of France’s Canal+ to revive moribund listing market

                Expected €6bn-€8bn IPO is set to be the largest listing in City since 2022

                Canal+ chief Maxime Saada in front of signs saying Canal+ and 40
              • Sunday, 27 October, 2024
                Financial services
                Former Tory treasurer Malik Karim dispels corporate fears over Labour

                Fenchurch Advisory boss points to uptick in M&A and industry shifts for boost in profits

                Malik Karim
              • Sunday, 13 October, 2024
                London AIM market should be axed for failing to win tech floats, say think-tanks

                UK’s exchanges ‘not fit for purpose’ and need ‘radical’ overhaul, say Tony Blair Institute for Global Change and Onward

                Employees walk past FTSE AIM share price information at the London Stock Exchange
              • Wednesday, 9 October, 2024
                Executive Pay
                UK companies given greater leeway to award executives big pay rises

                Investment Association simplifies guidelines in effort to stem exodus of London-listed groups

                Skyline of the City of London
              • Friday, 13 September, 2024
                Special ReportInnovative Lawyers: Europe
                Lawyers usher in City of London’s new dawn

                Law firms have been central to the biggest revamp of Britain’s capital markets in decades

                A picture taken with a drone shows the Tower of London and the City of London financial district in London
              • Monday, 2 September, 2024
                Working from home
                London slower to return to office than New York and Paris

                Employers in UK capital should subsidise transport to entice staff back, report on global cities suggests

                Commuters cross London Bridge
              • Sunday, 11 August, 2024
                Executive Pay
                FTSE 100 chief executives’ pay rebounds to 2017 levels

                Rise to average of almost £5mn last year comes as UK executives push for payouts to compete with global rivals

                London skyline
              • Monday, 22 July, 2024
                Aim UK
                Number of Aim-quoted groups drops to 22-year low in blow to London

                Tally falls amid dearth of IPOs and as costs of being quoted drive some companies to delist

                Interior of Barrio, a local neighbourhood bar in the heart of Brixton
              • Sunday, 14 July, 2024
                Shein
                Shein’s pursuit of London IPO puts UK regulator under spotlight

                FCA must balance Britain’s governance reputation against boon for City that blockbuster listing would bring

                A line of shoppers outside a Shein pop-up store in Ontario, Canada
              • Wednesday, 10 July, 2024
                Patrick Jenkins
                The City of London can regain momentum from Paris

                The Square Mile can power UK growth plans after the elections

                British Union flag on top of the Bank of England
              • Thursday, 4 July, 2024
                IPOs
                UK should penalise start-ups that take state aid but list abroad, says lobby group

                UK Finance, a banking body argues for clawback of tax breaks to halt flow of business overseas

                Visitors pass skyscrapers in the City of London
              • Tuesday, 2 July, 2024
                Revolut Ltd
                Revolut chair welcomes London listing overhaul as fintech reports record profits

                UK-based company helped by higher interest rates as it expands customer base

                An illustration of Revolut bank cards
              • Friday, 28 June, 2024
                Shein
                Shein keeps option of Hong Kong IPO as back-up plan

                Fast-fashion group’s ambition of listing in London is facing scrutiny in UK and China

                Shein clothes on rail
              • Friday, 28 June, 2024
                Special ReportParis 2024: Games and Legacy
                What Paris should learn from London 2012 Olympic legacy

                Against the historical odds, the UK capital’s games were a marked economic success

                Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt celebrates on the track by performing his iconic pose, with one arm extended upwards and the other bent across his chest. He is wearing his national colors and has a Jamaican flag draped around his neck
              • Monday, 24 June, 2024
                IPOs
                London Tunnels switches IPO plan from the UK to Amsterdam

                Group set up to turn second world war tunnels into a tourist attraction aborts plans for London flotation

                A design of London Tunnels’ plans for Kingsway Exchange Tunnels
              • Monday, 24 June, 2024
                Rebooting Britain’s capital markets
                The club of City executives plotting a revival for the UK’s capital markets

                CMIT is pushing for reform in a bid to end malaise engulfing London market

                A combined image of Peter Harrison, Julia Hoggett and the London Stock Exchange logo
              • Wednesday, 19 June, 2024
                IPOs
                Zilch warns it might ‘go somewhere else’ unless UK boosts IPO market

                Fintech’s chief says he has had positive discussions with Conservative and Labour parties ahead of possible listing

                Philip Belamant sits onstage at a conference with the words ‘Founders Forum Global’ in the background
              • Thursday, 13 June, 2024
                Peel Hunt LLP
                Peel Hunt boss says ‘switch has been flicked’ on gloomy City sentiment

                Steven Fine says London’s listings market showing ‘tentative’ signs of recovery

                A trader at Peel Hunt
              • Tuesday, 11 June, 2024
                Fund management
                Invesco shutters UK equities team as customer outflows hit wider sector

                US asset manager will merge team once led by Neil Woodford with its European division

                Invesco headquarters in Atlanta, Georgia
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