The new venue will run separately from the LSE’s Main Market.
Officials at the London Stock Exchange (LSE) unveiled plans to launch a 24/5 trading venue, known as London Stock Exchange 24 (LSE 24), that will support digital, algorithmic, and agentic trading, officials say.
“LSE 24 is designed to support near-continuous trading from Monday to Friday, giving global investors greater flexibility to respond to market events, access liquidity across time zones and manage risk,” according to the announcement.
The venue will use the London Stock Exchange Group’s (LSEG) financial market infrastructure, which “complements existing market structures by preserving the resilience and integrity of regular trading hours, while opening new opportunities for participation outside the traditional trading day in the U.K,” officials say. “It will operate separately from the London Stock Exchange’s Main Market, which will continue to operate its existing trading hours.”
The LSE 24 venue will begin client testing by the end of 2026, “with exchange-traded products (ETPs) launching as the first asset class in H1 2027, subject to regulatory approval,” officials say. “The venue intends to draw on elements of central limit order book and request-for-quote functionality to support price transparency and on-demand liquidity, with the flexibility to expand into equities as the next step.”
LSE 24 will enable native connectivity for agent-based trading capabilities. “This connectivity will allow clients to interact with market data, order management and execution workflows in more automated and intuitive ways, while maintaining the governance, resilience and controls of a regulated market,” officials say.
“Subject to regulatory approvals, LSE 24 will leverage LSEG’s Digital Securities Depository (DSD), currently also being built with active market engagement,” officials add. LSEG DSD supports the “digitization of issuance, settlement and asset servicing, thus enabling greater reach for LSE 24. The DSD will expand into different asset classes to meet client demand and enable new functionalities across markets. LSEG will interoperate with other market participants to shape the evolution of the market and accelerate adoption.”
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