FCA chief executive’s speech indicates an exciting transition to a lighter regime and a true single listing segment.

By James Inness, Anna Ngo, and Johannes Poon

On 29 March 2023, FCA Chief Executive Nikhil Rathi delivered a speech at the Global Investment Management Summit on the topic “Reforming our capital markets ecosystem”.

He announced that the FCA will soon publish a blueprint for further reform of the UK listing regime in which the current standard and premium listing segments for shares in commercial companies would be replaced with a single listing category with a single set of requirements.