{"id":278248,"date":"2025-07-20T20:45:11","date_gmt":"2025-07-20T20:45:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/278248\/"},"modified":"2025-07-20T20:45:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-20T20:45:11","slug":"london-stock-exchange-parent-exploring-24-hour-trading-launch-ft-reports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/278248\/","title":{"rendered":"London Stock Exchange parent exploring 24-hour trading launch, FT reports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The London Stock Exchange Group\u00a0is weighing whether to launch 24-hour trading and is looking into the practicalities of increasing its trading hours, the Financial Times reported on Sunday, citing people familiar with the situation.<\/p>\n<p>LSEG\u00a0is \u201cabsolutely looking at it, whether it means 24-hour trading or extended trading,\u201d one of the people told the newspaper, adding that the exchange group was \u201chaving important commercial, policy and regulatory discussions\u201d about the \u201congoing topic.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The exploration is part of wide-ranging discussions into potential new products and services, another person told the FT.<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.5585997;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"36591877\" width=\"920\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/lseg-signage-seen-screens-lobby-105739883.jpg\" alt=\"London Stock Exchange interior with market data displays.\" class=\"wp-image-36591877\"  \/>The London\u00a0Stock Exchange\u2019s parent company has struggled to attract new listings, prompting reforms last year to make it more competitive with New York and the European Union after Brexit.  REUTERS<\/p>\n<p>LSEG\u00a0had no comment.<\/p>\n<p>The group is considering aspects of extended trading hours, including technology upgrades, regulatory questions, possible effects on companies with dual listings and the potential impact on liquidity, currently concentrated at the open and closing auction of the trading day, the report added.<\/p>\n<p>In March, Nasdaq\u00a0announced\u00a0plans to introduce 24-hour trading on its flagship U.S. exchange and joined rival exchanges like Cboe Global Markets and Intercontinental Exchange, the operator of the New York Stock Exchange, in planning extended trading hours.<\/p>\n<p>LSEG, which runs the London Stock Exchange and provides data and analytics to banks and other institutions,\u00a0reported\u00a0stronger than expected first-quarter income in May, driven by robust growth in its markets division, and a strong performance across its other businesses.<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.49926794;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"36591874\" width=\"885\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/member-staff-poses-next-trading-108477515.jpg\" alt=\"A man looks at his phone while standing in front of a stock ticker showing market data.\" class=\"wp-image-36591874\"  \/>The exploration is part of wide-ranging discussions into potential new products and services, another person told the FT. Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>London\u00a0has struggled to attract new listings, prompting reforms last year to make it more competitive with New York and the European Union after Brexit and some have moved their primary listing to New York or picked Europe for IPOs.<\/p>\n<p>Shein is\u00a0working\u00a0toward a\u00a0listing\u00a0in Hong Kong after its proposed London IPO stalled while Unilever chose Amsterdam as the primary listing for its ice cream business Ben &amp; Jerry\u2019s in February.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The London Stock Exchange Group\u00a0is weighing whether to launch 24-hour trading and is looking into the practicalities of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":278249,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7757],"tags":[748,51,393,4884,257,3097,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-278248","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-london","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-business","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-london","13":"tag-london-stock-exchange","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114887519497021446","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=278248"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278248\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/278249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=278248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=278248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=278248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}