London Stock Exchange,one of the largest and oldest stock exchange of United Kingdom. It is located in London, England and was founded in 1801. LSE is also a part London Stock Exchange Group.
Located at the heart of London; Paternoster Square which is close to St Paul’s Cathedral, LSE has four core features. One of them is Equity Markets. This basically allows companies across the world to raise capital. And under this category, there are four sub-categories which LSE accounts;
- Main Market
- Alternative Investment Market (AIM)
- Professinal Securities MArket (PSM)
- Specialist Fund Makrket (SFM)
Apart from this, another core feature of LSE is its trading services. The highly active market which offers a wide varitey of trade options such as securities, which include UK and international equities, ETFs or Exchange Traded Funds, ETCs or Exchange Traded Commodoties and contracts for difference or CFDs.
More over, core feature of LSE include Information services. It is extremely efficient when it comes to providing real time prices, news and other financial updates to local as well as global financial community.
Last but not the least; Derivates. One of the major contributors to the global derivatives business is EDX London. It was created in 2003 with the primary purpose to bring derivatives and cash equity markets closer.