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  • AIM: IPOs on London’s junior market stayed at rock bottom

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    The number of IPOs on AIM has continued at its record low numbers in 2024, sailing below the level of the financial crisis. IPOs on London’s junior stock market totalled just 11 last year, the same number as in 2023 and below the 13 recorded during the 2008 financial crisis. While the amount of money [...]

    The London Stock Exchange's IPO prospects were back on a "level playing field," a Peel Hunt analyst has said.
  • AIM listings hit 23-year low amid Budget tax speculation

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    The number of AIM companies has fallen below 700 for the first time since 2001, new data has confirmed, as London’s junior market has been battered by speculation that a key tax relief for AIM shares may be scrapped in this week’s Budget. Some 92 companies have delisted from AIM in the past year, with [...]

    92 companies have delisted from AIM in the past year.
  • London AIM floats plummet as fears grow of Reeves tax raid

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    The number of flotations on the London Stock Exchange’s junior AIM market have plummeted to their lowest level since the financial crisis as fears grow the market could be hammered by a tax raid from Rachel Reeves. Only £88.6m was raised through IPOs on the junior market over the last year to 30 September, just [...]

    AIM, the LSE’s junior market, had been sent into a tailspin by Budget rumours.
  • More bad news for London’s AIM: Secondary funding tanks by a third

    September 25, 2024

    Secondary funding on London’s Alternative Investment Market (AIM) has dropped 33 per cent in the last year alone, as more bad news piles on the junior market. While IPOs have dried up on AIM, secondary funding hasn’t fared much better: Only £1.2bn was brought in through secondary fundraisings over the last year to 31 August, [...]

  • AIM hit by sharp liquidity drop in further blow to London market

    May 6, 2024

    Companies listed on the UK's AIM have seen the average value of their shares trading fall over 15 per cent in the last year.

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