> enabled by London’s shrinking public markets

That doesn't seem to be true?

It is - https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-09-30/london-dr...

Edit: can't reply

The majority of IPOs in 2025 were in 4 markets - US, China, Hong Kong, India, and South Korea [0]. It's really hard to exit in the LSE currently, and this article is self congratulatory while ignoring major recent (past 2-3 years) mistakes that negatively impacted the entrepreneurship scene in the UK (eg. the revocation of funding for Tech Nation [1] and the ongoing leadership crisis at Monzo [2] which makes no one look good).

[0] - https://www.ey.com/en_pt/insights/ipo/trends

[1] - https://sifted.eu/articles/tech-nation-shutting-down

[2] - https://www.ft.com/content/3405c6f3-931b-4fe3-a169-a9665a132...

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dukeyukey a day ago | parent [-]

No it isn't, London's IPOs in 2025 were mostly towards the end of the year, after that article was written. London ended up about 8th worldwide for issuances in 2025 - https://www.pwc.co.uk/press-room/press-releases/research-com...

Plus, the FTSE 100 returned 25.8% last year. That is not a shrinking market!

EDIT: I'd prefer you not change the subject away from your capital markets claim, but to address the other links:

1. I didn't say London was a top 4 IPO location, just that it's market aren't shrinking.

2. Tech Nation still exists, and still administers that visa. I don't know why you posted a very out of date article about it.

3. It's not ideal that such a high profile company is having issues like that, but hey, stuff happens. OpenAI had a whole goddamn coup and counter-coup happen!

	▲	tonyedgecombe 9 hours ago \| parent [-]
		> Plus, the FTSE 100 returned 25.8% last year. That is not a shrinking market! After a long period in the doldrums.