London Stock Exchange

London Stock Exchange is an online marketplace that enables stock brokers and traders to buy and sell stocks, bonds, and other securities. The organization offers capital market trading information, derivatives, enhanced connectivity, telephone network, reference and historical data, historic price, corporate action, trade data, valuation data, broker ranking, matching and reconciliation, post-trade, technical library, and stock quote services. London Stock Exchange also offers access to approximately 250,000 international equity, bond, and alternative asset class indices; and develops trading platforms and capital markets software for customers. The London Stock Exchange Limited is the world’s oldest stock exchange and one of the top three stock exchanges in the world, after the New York and Tokyo exchanges. LSE operates a number of market products, including the main board listing, which features more than 3,000 companies, along with the secondary AIM (Alternative Investment Market), established in 1995 as a vehicle for trades in small, high-growth companies. London Stock Exchange Group was founded in 1801 and is headquartered in London, the United Kingdom.