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London fights for its future

  • 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
  • Monday, 10 June, 2024
    LexExecutive Pay
    Executive pay gap emboldens want-away UK companies Premium content

    S&P 500 executives pocket about three times what their peers do in the FTSE 100

    A union jack flag flutters in front of skyscrapers in the City of London
  • Monday, 10 June, 2024
    UK financial regulation
    UK poised to approve biggest overhaul of listing regime in 40 years

    Financial watchdog to review final version of rules week before July 4 poll

    The LSE in Paternoster Square
  • Thursday, 6 June, 2024
    London Stock Exchange Group
    LSE chief pushes for big screen outside HQ to champion market successes

    Julia Hoggett’s plan is latest attempt to reverse pessimism over London market after decline in listings

    The London Stock Exchange’s offices in Paternoster Square, London
  • Thursday, 6 June, 2024
    Shein
    Fund managers give cool reception to prospect of Shein London IPO

    ESG concerns may undermine support for potential blockbuster flotation

    Accessories at a Shein pop-up store in Spain
  • Friday, 10 May, 2024
    The FT ViewThe editorial board
    A new growth plan for London

    Britain’s leaders need to ensure the vibrant capital lives up to its potential

    View of the City of London skyline from across the River Thames
  • Thursday, 2 May, 2024
    State-backed Coutts plans shift away from UK equities

    Move by NatWest’s private bank comes as government tries to revive London market amid taste for US listings

    Coutts HQ window
  • Monday, 29 April, 2024
    Oliver Ralph
    BHP’s bid for Anglo American chips away further at London’s reputation

    Company’s exit would deal another blow to City’s status as home to listed mining groups

    A person walks past a London Stock Exchange Group logo at the company’s  headquarters in the City of London
  • Monday, 22 April, 2024
    Goldman Sachs
    Goldman Sachs moves senior banker to Paris in post-Brexit revamp

    Head of financial institutions group for Europe relocates at sensitive time for its operations on the continent

    The logo for Goldman Sachs is seen on the trading floor at the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York City
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