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Ensuring the UK is a competitive place for large companies to be listed

There is significant concern about the long-term decline in liquidity in London markets due to structural, regulatory, and market factors. Find out what the CBI is doing about it.

03 Jul 2024, 2 min read

The challenge businesses are facing

There is significant concern about the long-term decline in liquidity in London markets due to structural, regulatory, and market factors. While the government and regulators have made some significant headway on addressing this through the Edinburgh and Mansion House reforms, amongst others, we feel there is still more to do including a greater role for the business community to feed in solutions into this debate.

What the CBI is asking for

The profile of the CBI’s membership means we are uniquely placed to fill this gap by convening a group of CEOs and Chairs from across the FTSE 100 and FTSE 250. This group will be supported by the Capital Markets Working Group, which represents businesses from a wider spectrum of the business community with an interest in the attractiveness of UK equity markets. Our focus will be on identifying strategic and policy recommendations on structural, regulatory, and governance reforms in this area.

How to get involved

Join the Capital Markets Working Group to support us in attracting more capital to UK equity markets and keeping the UK competitive for large company listings. With persistent concerns about the long-term decline in London market liquidity persist due to structural, regulatory and market factors, we want to convene a group with a broad perspective to complement work being undertaken elsewhere in the capital markets ecosystem.

We would welcome participants from companies who are listed, have de-listed, are looking to list, or who are part of the wider ecosystem (investors, prof services, law firms, brokers etc). This could be on FTSE100, FTSE250, AIM, Aquis, or via secondary listings in the UK, as we are keen to gather broader insights on how we improve the workings of the UK's capital markets.

The group will meet quarterly for 90 minutes, with additional meetings as needed.

If you're a CBI member, to join the working group, please contact Megan Bulford or Tom Maitland.