Key facts about the UK as an international financial centre 2022

The UK's trade surplus in financial and related professional services is
£81bn

The UK has
38%
of the global total of
foreign-exchange turnover

Over 342 active sustainable bonds were listed on the LSE from over 100 issuers in 2021, which have raised around
£104bn

The LSE had a 3% share of the global equity market capitalisation as of Oct 2022

Around twice as many US Dollars are traded in the UK as in the US

UK-based Islamic Banks' assets represent 85% of total European Islamic Banking assets
(excluding Turkey); around
£5.5bn in 2021

333
foreign companies were listed on the London Stock Exchange (LSE) as of September 2022

The UK's equity market capitalisation was
108.6%
of its GDP at the end of 2021

The UK private equity market is the most developed in the World outside the US. Private equity funds invested
£29.5bn
the largest amount in Europe, in 2021

There were 1,600 FinTech companies in the UK and the UK FinTech sector registered record investment of
£27.6bn as of 2021