The London Stock Exchange welcomes Ghana as a new sovereign issuer of debt on our Main Market. The Republic of Ghana has listed a Eurobond raising $750m, and will join 40 active public sector issuers on the Exchange's bond markets.

The Exchange is one of the world's major venues for listing debt securities and is particularly attractive to sovereign issuers. In the seven months to the end of July 2007 alone, public sector issuers raised over £16bn on the Exchange's markets.

The Exchange provides access to one of the world's deepest pools of international investment capital, through a choice of listed markets for debt; the Main Market and Professional Securities Market. These markets offer flexible solutions for issuers while maintaining appropriate standards of investor protection.