According to the London Stock Exchange, the listings of companies focussed on sub-Saharan Africa total 115 companies:
• 26 companies on the Main Market
• 3 Global Depository Receipt (GDR) listings on the Main Market
• 2 GDR listings on the Professional Securities Market (PSM)
• 84 companies quoted on AIM, the growth market
The LSE headquarters are in London and it has significant operations in Italy, France, North America and Sri Lanka and employs approximately 2,800 people.

In its press release about a link-up with the Nigerian Stock Exchange, the London bourse says it offers partner securities exchanges and investors a broad range of international equity, bond and derivatives markets, including London Stock Exchange; Borsa Italiana; MTS, Europe’s leading fixed-income market; and the pan-European equities platform, Turquoise. Through its markets, the Group offers international business, and investors, unrivalled access to Europe’s capital markets.
Increasingly important are the post-trade and risk-management services including CC&G, the Rome headquartered central counterparty clearing house (CCP) and Monte Titoli, the significant European settlement business, selected as a first wave participant in the T2S (TARGET2-Securities) European settlement engine that aims to offer centralized delivery-versus-payment. The Group is also a majority owner of LCH.Clearnet, the leading multi-asset global CCP.
LSEG offers its customers an extensive range of real-time and reference data products, including SEDOL, UnaVista, Proquote and RNS. It owns FTSE which calculates thousands of unique indices that measure and benchmark markets and asset classes in more than 80 countries around the world. African exchanges have recently been taking strong interest in FTSE products that will help their visibility and data flows.
By purchasing Sri Lanka’s MillenniumIT trading, surveillance and post trade technology some years ago, the LSEG established itself as a leading developer of high performance trading platforms and capital markets software. According to the LSE press release over 40 other organizations and exchanges around the world use the Group’s technology, although smaller African such as the Dar es Salaam Stock Exchange are switching to other systems as reported on this blog, as Millennium IT’s focus changes.