The London-Shanghai Stock Connect: Opportunity for UK companies to flourish?

'Symbolic of a deeper Anglo-Sino economic relationship'

The move is a positive one, but there are still a lot of issues to resolve before investors, issuers and policymakers can get too excited, writes Garry Jones, director of Horatio Ventures and former CEO of the London Metal Exchange (LME) and NYSE LIFFE.

This week, some of the world's highest profile business leaders gather in Singapore for the Bloomberg New Economy Forum (NEF), dubbed the ‘Far-East Davos'. Amongst other key topics, the NEF shines a spotlight on China's increasing role on the world stage and the debate around China's much-vaunted ‘opening-up' to the rest of the world. One example of this, which has been much discussed and long in the making, the London-Shanghai Stock Connect. Despite the excitement, there is still a lot of work left to be done. Chinese stocks, bonds and commodities have historically been difficult to acc...