Strategic Corporate Scaling Tactics for 2026

As a result of the intro of the UKLR sourcebook in July 2024, both the London Stock Market (LSE) and FTSE Russell made substantial changes to their guidelines. In July 2024, the LSE confirmed changes to its Admission and Disclosure Standards to show the collapse of the previous premium and standard listing sections into the new industrial company category.

, chaired by Charlie Geffen. The goal of the taskforce was to consider the potential advantages of the UK moving to a T +1 securities settlement cycle and detail how this modification could be implemented.

, chaired by Sir Douglas Flint.

Scale UK Expansion in 2026

In July 2023, the taskforce released an Interim Report (read our summary here) that made a number of recommendations, consisting of: legislation ought to be advanced, and company posts of association changed, as quickly as practicable to stop the issuance of brand-new paper share certificates; the federal government ought to advance legislation to need dematerialisation of all share certificates at a future date; the federal government should consult with issuer and financier representatives on the preferred personality of "residual" paper share interests and whether a time frame ought to be enforced for the identification of untraced Ultimate Beneficial Owners (UBOs); andintermediaries need to have a responsibility, as a condition of involvement in the cleaning and settlement system, to put in place common technology that allows them to react to UBO requests from issuers within a really brief time frame.

ANSR July UK PRs

Digitisation would target listed business with a view to lowering expenses and waste, and enhancing investor interaction. The report proposes additional measures to ensure that UBOs within the intermediated securities chain would have the ability to work out shareholder rights that are presently only ensured for registered shareholders, along with measures to enhance interaction in between companies and UBOs.