London’s unique position as a gateway to Europe for companies from across the Asia Pacific region makes the London Stock Exchange the trusted international listing venue for companies of all sizes and at different stages of growth. To learn more about our partnership in China, please visit our dedicated webpage.
LSEG holds a long-standing relationship with our Asia Pacific capital markets ecosystem. We continue to support companies and international capital markets with new initiatives and partnerships:
South East Asia: Empowering a dynamic market
South East Asian companies listed on our markets represent a broad spectrum of businesses from across the region, including companies with primary operations in Singapore, Vietnam, Indonesia and the Philippines, South East Asian companies listing on our markets are attracted by a number of factors:
- Access to diverse pools of global capital.
- Significant passive index tracking demand via our FTSE index series.
- Investment from specialised frontier and emerging market funds located in UK and Europe.
South Asia
- In 2025, London Stock Exchange co-chaired the IUKFP working group that recommended connecting UK and India’s equity capital markets through bilateral equity share cross listings.
- In 2021, London Stock Exchange co-chaired the India UK Financial Partnership (IUKFP) working group (PDF) that recommended wide ranging measures to scale India’s corporate bonds market.
- Since 2007, Sri Lanka has raised US$17bn by issuing sovereign bonds in London, some of which remain admitted for trading on ISM.
- Since 1994, Indian companies have raised over $30bn on London’s equity and debt capital markets.
- Since 1994, 72 Indian companies have listed and raised approximately US$15bn in equity capital through IPOs and follow-on offerings on the London Stock Exchange’s Main Market and on AIM.
- Additionally, 20 Indian companies have issued Eurobonds and Rupee or “Masala” bonds on the Main Market and on the International Securities Market (ISM), London’s dedicated trading platform for fixed income securities.
- Having supported the internationalisation of the Indian Rupee from conception, London Stock Exchange remains one of the largest masala bond centres globally.
- Indian commodity exchange NCDEX uses LSEG Technology’s Millennium Exchange and Millennium Surveillance offerings.
- Bangladesh’s Beximco Pharmaceuticals and GCM Resources have raised growth capital of over US$40m on AIM.