Spring Budget 24: UK Treasury to establish venue for private companies to trade shares

Intermittent trading platform

Valeria Martinez
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The UK Treasury has unveiled proposals to create a venue where private companies can trade their shares, the Private Intermittent Securities and Capital Exchange System (PISCES).

In a consultation paper accompanying the chancellor's Spring Budget, the government has outlined plans for a system designed to support early-stage private companies in accessing capital to scale up, provide liquidity and enable shareholders to realise their gains.  PISCES proposes a blend of public market features, including multilateral trading, and private market aspects, such as greater discretion on what company disclosures should be made public.  It provides a regulatory framework for the intermittent trading of private company shares on a multilateral system, with an accompanyi...

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