London IPO Fundraising for a 30-year minimum

Fundraising from London IPO in the first half of this year decreased by at least three decades, new data showed on Friday and fresh questions about Britain’s fading as a center for the global capital.

According to the new data, Dealogic, in the first six months of 2025, the five -month 2025 dollars (218.6 million) were collected in the London market.

This is the lowest level of IPO London funds collected in the first half of the year, recorded by Dealogic since it started collecting data in 1995.

Even after the 2008 financial crisis, the two London IPO managed to raise 222 million pounds in the first half of 2009, the data shows.

The biggest IPO in London this year was a list of professional services MossWhich in April collected 98 million pounds on the debut on the alternative investment market (AIM).

The lists in London are ordered this year to hold the city’s struggle to retain its former glory as one of the main places for the global capital.

According to the most recent IPO hours report With the Giant Professional Services PWC, IPO continues in the UK, in the first quarter of 2025 decreased to 100 million pounds, underneath A year earlier year earlier.

Only this year the financial markets of the city transferred the firms that once planned there lists of blockbusters. For example, Shane is reportedly planning an IPO in Hong Kong after giving up his previous plans to pay his shares in London, while investor Metals Glencore Metals Cobalt Holdings confirmed CNBC last month that he gave up plans for London IPO.

Problems are not limited to new lists – in June, British Fintech Giant Wise announced He moved his main list from London to New York, and earlier this week was report That pharmaceutical Astrazeneca – The most valuable company in the FTSE 100 London Index is considered Moving the list in the US.

Krista Koarman, CEO and co -founder of Wise, said in a statement at the time that the move would help to increase the company’s awareness in the US, giving the firm the best access to the “deepest capital market in the world”.

Dealogic’s data emphasized a significant gap between the US and UK lists so far. In the first six months of the year, the US markets had 156 IPO, which collected $ 28.3 billion, showed figures.

However, Samuel Kerr, head of the capital department in Mergermarket, said CNBC that while the UK’s stock markets were “under the negative press cloud for some time,” there may be lighter times in London.

“We see that more businesses are starting to look seriously on the London lists after a few years of reforms and wider uncertainty depending on the US normative and political direction,” he said in an e -mail.

UK Prime Minister Kire Starmer hoped his government’s plans to revive the Britain’s capital markets, promise To study the regulation that “unnecessary holds back investment”. Last summer power by financial behavior of the UK overhaul List of rules seeking to simplify the process of floating stocks in the UK market.

“If London is able to transform interest in the early stage into the UK’s lists into a successful IPO, it will go somehow to cancel some Doom stories,” said Kerr Mergerket’s Kerr.

Janet Mui, head of market analysis at Manager RBC Brewin Dolphin, noted that exits through IPO are slowing around the world.

“It is easy to be a bear when we have such news,” she said in an email on Friday. “The reality is more nuanced, including the macro -determination and tougher financial conditions have slowed down the list worldwide.”

Last week Financial Times report That Norwegian program giant Visma chose London for his future debut in the public market. Mui claimed that this news showed that London still had appetite to make companies with high growth.

“Given this, you need more work to ensure the listing reforms and make London more attractive to the business,” she confessed.