London Stock Exchange Incident Halts Trading in Many Stocks

October 19, 203--The 80-minute outage hit hundreds of smaller-cap equities
Stocks on the FTSE 100 and FTSE 250 indexes weren't affected
A system "incident" halted trading in hundreds of shares on the London Stock Exchange for the final 80 minutes of Thursday's session.

The outage affected mostly smaller-cap equities, but included several high-profile names such as Asos Plc, Deliveroo Plc and Metro Bank Holdings Plc, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. Stocks on the FTSE 100 Index, FTSE 250 and international orderbook weren't affected, London Stock Exchange Group Plc said on its website.

ESAs warn of risks from economic and geopolitical events

September 10, 2024--The three European Supervisory Authorities (EBA, EIOPA and ESMA-ESAs) today issued their Autumn 2024 Joint Committee Report on risks and vulnerabilities in the EU financial system. The Report underlines ongoing high economic and geopolitical uncertainties.