Britain is liberalising its stockmarket-listing rules, again
And again, it won’t help much
Julia hoggett has an unenviable task. She started running the London Stock Exchange (lse) in 2021. The previous year the value of Apple, an American tech giant, had overtaken that of the entire ftse 100 index of London-listed shares. At that time she was a senior official with the Financial Conduct Authority (fca), a regulator; she remembers sitting down and scribbling out a list of all the things about Britain’s stockmarket that needed fixing. Then she became its boss.
This article appeared in the Britain section of the print edition under the headline “Bourse correction”
Britain May 6th 2023
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- Britain is liberalising its stockmarket-listing rules, again
- Britain takes a more sensible approach to post-Brexit regulation
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- Britain plans new guidance on sex and gender in schools
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