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    • Friday, 31 March, 2023
      UK is global equity markets ‘backwater’, Nick Train warns

      Top fund manager defends pension funds’ retreat from London-listed stocks

    • Wednesday, 29 March, 2023
      Financial services
      London loses sole lead as world’s top financial centre

      Tie with New York comes despite government efforts to reinvigorate UK listings market

    • Tuesday, 21 March, 2023
      Oxford Nanopore Technologies
      Oxford Nanopore open to possibility of overseas listing

      UK genomic sequencing group ‘not ruling out’ any options, says chief executive

    • Wednesday, 15 March, 2023
      UK politics & policy
      Executives dismayed that reforms to boost London stock market yet to come

      Measures to unlock pension savings into early-stage companies will also be set out later this year

    • Monday, 13 March, 2023
      Helen Thomas
      Let’s hope the start-up world remembers this Great British Tech Rescue

      The UK tech sector has been backed up and bailed out by a country it sometimes appears impatient to escape

    • Friday, 10 March, 2023
      Ferguson PLC
      Ferguson has ‘no regrets’ over moving listing to New York

      UK-based group formerly known as Wolseley says switch has increased share of US-based investors

    • Thursday, 9 March, 2023
      Aviva PLC
      Aviva chief says UK should ‘stop talking ourselves down’ as companies shun London listings

      Amanda Blanc calls for optimism after anxiety grows over decline of country’s capital markets

    • Wednesday, 8 March, 2023
      UK business & economy
      L&G boss laments ‘drift’ away from London’s equity market

      Nigel Wilson warns UK held back by low-growth economy and ‘political infighting’

    • Tuesday, 7 March, 2023
      Ashtead Group PLC
      Ashtead sticks with London listing despite surging US business

      Construction equipment rental group has no plans to follow move by CRH

    • Tuesday, 7 March, 2023
      Helen Thomas
      Don’t just blame the regulator for London’s failed American dreams

      Tweaking the rules for each big listing that comes along would be pathetic

    • Friday, 3 March, 2023
      News in-depthUK equities
      ‘There are no domestic equity investors’: why companies are fleeing London’s stock market

      Lure of higher valuations and a deeper pool of investors in the US have sparked a string of departures

    • Friday, 3 March, 2023
      FT News Briefing podcast9 min listen
      London Stock Exchange gets the cold shoulder

      US to launch new crackdown on Russian sanctions busting

    • Friday, 3 March, 2023
      Fears for London market after SoftBank’s Arm and building group CRH opt for NY

      Moves to list the chip designer and building materials giant in US come as UK tries to sharpen appeal

    • Friday, 3 March, 2023
      Helen Thomas
      This Brexit breakthrough doesn’t move the dial for the City

      Only reforms will stop the decline of London’s equity market

    • Thursday, 2 March, 2023
      LexCRH PLC
      CRH: low valuations and volumes make London listings easy to dump Premium content

      New York does not guarantee higher valuations or more local deals but it is a larger, more liquid market

    • Wednesday, 1 March, 2023
      LexVanessa Houlder
      The Lex Newsletter: Shell’s mooted City exit should spur reform Premium content

      London needs to attract new listings but is held back by a shortage of homegrown capital

    • Wednesday, 15 February, 2023
      The Big Read
      More risk, fewer rules: the plan to revive the City of London

      Ministers and financiers hope ‘Big Bang 2.0’ can be a blueprint for the post-Brexit era. But will its equity markets ever attract big tech companies?

    • Sunday, 18 December, 2022
      UK business & economy
      City of London executives back Hunt’s ‘Edinburgh reforms’

      Chancellor’s reforms are needed to protect competitiveness but do not herald a second ‘big bang’, says FT’s City Network

    • Friday, 9 December, 2022
      UK financial regulation
      City tells UK ministers to speed up financial services reforms

      Applause for ‘thoughtful Darwinian evolution’ but package needed to keep pace with rivals

    • Tuesday, 6 December, 2022
      UK financial regulation
      UK financial regulators warned to improve transparency

      Demand from Treasury for ‘world-leading’ effectiveness ahead of unveiling of ‘Edinburgh Reforms’ for City

    • Thursday, 24 November, 2022
      LexClearing & Settlement
      City/derivatives clearing: EU’s slow Brexitry will increase costs Premium content

      The EU is talking tough but acting relaxed

    • Wednesday, 23 November, 2022
      EU financial regulation
      Brussels demands share of London derivatives clearing

      EU-based traders could be required to clear minimum amount of ‘systemic’ derivatives contracts inside bloc

    • Tuesday, 15 November, 2022
      LexEuropean equities
      Financial centres: Paris powers past liquid, disliked London Premium content

      Free float is a better measure of the investable market

    • Monday, 3 October, 2022
      Helen Thomas
      This pensions crisis adds to the City’s existential angst

      Defined benefit schemes already wary of risk allocate just 3% of assets to UK equities

    • Wednesday, 21 September, 2022
      Two-phase reform planned for City of London

      Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng will set out some initial changes in his mini-Budget on Friday

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