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  • 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

  • Friday, 16 September, 2022
    Philip Augar
    The City and the Treasury have a difficult balancing act

    Sir Tom Scholar’s exit endangers institutional memory of how to handle a financial crisis — and the need for caution in deregulation

  • Monday, 12 September, 2022
    UK financial regulation
    Former Sky executive picked to lead City reforms

    Boris Johnson ally Andrew Griffith chosen to lead overhaul of financial services regulation under Truss government

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