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African digital financial services platform, Airtel Money, made its London Stock Exchange (LSE) debut on Friday, marking the exchange's largest initial public offering (IPO) in several years.. Sunil Mittal, Founder of Airtel and Founder and Chairman of Bharti Enterprises, said the listing builds on Bharti's significant record of long-term interests in the UK. "I am delighted to welcome the successful listing of Airtel Money on the London Stock Exchange. This listing is a vote of confidence in the UK as an attractive global destination for investment, with a stable business and policy environment attractive for long-term investors," he said. The listing also builds on Bharti's significant record of long-term interests in the UK, including the strategic stake in BT announced in 2024, shareholding in Eutelsat (previously OneWeb) alongside the UK Government, and hospitality assets including the Scottish resort Gleneagles. "In 2019, we listed Airtel Africa in London to leverage the UK's

Existing shareholders including the Qatar Investment Authority and TPG Inc. sold 270 million shares at £1.96 apiece in the IPO, raising roughly £529 million ($700 million) in the process, according to

The mobile payments firm, part of Airtel Africa Plc, said on Wednesday that it is considering listing on the London Stock Exchange

The Bharti Airtel subsidiary said the London listing would provide access to a broad international investor base, subject to regulatory approvals

Airtel Africa has chosen London as the primary listing venue for its mobile-money business, with the IPO expected this year, subject to market conditions and regulatory approvals

UK's top retail investment platform, Hargreaves Lansdown, has said cryptocurrency performance cannot be reliably analysed and shouldn't be trusted to help clients meet their financial goals

Over 11,000 millionaires reportedly left London in 2024, marking one of the highest annual outflows of wealthy residents from the UK capital in recent history

Mittal was presented the insignia of the Knight Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (KBE) at a special investiture ceremony at the British High Commissioner's residence

LSEG, which runs the London Stock Exchange and provides data and analytics to banks and other institutions, said it was working to resume service

Friday's data showed a sharp slowdown in US job growth, raising fears of deterioration in American labour market and potential recession, prompting bets for a half-point interest rate cut in September

Country's leading stock exchanges NSE and BSE on Friday said they are not impacted due to the global outage of Microsoft systems amid reports of disruptions in functioning of several airlines, banks, media outlets worldwide. Microsoft users globally, several in India, have reported massive outages in services, with outage tracking website Downdetector showing users flagging disruptions across various services. Meanwhile, the two leading Indian stock exchanges announced that they are not impacted due to Microsoft outage. "NSE (National Stock Exchange) and NCL (NSE Clearing Ltd) are working normal today," NSE's spokesperson said in a statement. Separately, a spokerseron of BSE said that the bourse is "not impacted due to Microsoft issue. Our operations are running normal." Globally, the Microsoft cloud outage led to US airlines cancelling flights, but the tech giant later reportedly said its cloud services outage in the Central US region has been resolved. The glitch is causing use

It is moving in a direction completely opposite of where Sebi has taken us

India is the world's second busiest IPO market this year after the United States, with bankers expecting more activity amid a paucity of deals elsewhere in Asia, Reuters reported last month

The FRC has also just been given anew remit to consider Britain's global competitiveness when writing new rules

Traders said that shares in CRH and Deliveroo were among those not trading on the London market after the incident, which was the first time trading on the LSE had been interrupted since 2019

London had lost its status as Europe's biggest stock market last November, extending an equity slump that stretched back to Britain's vote to leave the European Union in 2016

Bharti Group-backed Eutelsat Communications got listed on the London Stock Exchange, the company said on Friday. This will be the second stock exchange after the Euronext Paris Stock Exchange, where it is already listed. "Eutelsat Communications is pleased to announce that its entire issued share capital has today been admitted to the Standard Segment of the Official List of the Financial Conduct Authority and to trading on the Main Market for listed securities of the London Stock Exchange (LSE) under the ticker symbol: ETL," the company said in a statement. The development follows after Eutelsat Communications completed the merger with OneWeb, creating the world's first geostationary-low earth orbit (GEO-LEO) satellite space connectivity company. "Eutelsat is among a limited number of listed equities offering exposure to the fast-growing Space Sector. Our admission to the London Stock Exchange will offer the opportunity to a wider section of investors and shareholders to participa

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Under current regulations, Indian firms are not allowed to list directly on overseas exchanges. They can only list on foreign exchanges through instruments such as depository receipts

The price represents a 3.8% discount to the exchange operator's previous close