Find out how to submit applications to admit, amend or remove securities to and from the Official List.
Prospectus Rules: Admission to Trading on a Regulated Market (PRM) sourcebook
Issuers and their advisors should update references to the UK Prospectus Regulation where required to PRM, for example, referencing the right exemptions when applying for admission to the Official List.
Online portal for submissions
Our online portal, the Electronic Submission System (ESS) should be used for all applications for admissions and amendments, issuance programmes, removals, suspensions and restorations. This includes booking listing hearings.
Click on the link to see the ESS guide which explains how to use the portal.
If you have any questions, contact the Listings Data Management team.
Applications
From 19 January 2026, the UK Listing Rules (UKLR) no longer requires an issuer with an existing listed class of securities to apply for admission to listing for a further issue of those securities. Issuers still need to seek admission to trading on the relevant market and should continue to liaise with exchanges.
If an issuer is seeking the listing of a new class of securities not currently listed, you must ensure the application is being submitted to us at least 2 business days prior to the requested listing hearing date.
If your application is relying on an approved prospectus, then the requested listing hearing date must be at least 2 business days after the prospectus has been approved.
A listing hearing is a review of the documents supporting your application for listing. You do not have to attend the listing hearing. The listing hearing needs to be held before admission.
To book and submit documents for the requested listing hearing please log on to ESS.
All documents submitted must be in final form.
To change a requested listing hearing date for an application, please contact the Listings Data Management team, specifying the issuer name, type of issue, the details of the original hearing and the requested new date. If all the issue details remain compliant with our UKLR, you do not need to resubmit them.
You will also need to read Chapter 20 of the UKLR, which sets out our listing application requirements for admission of securities to listing.
Issuers should keep us informed of any potential changes to listed securities to ensure the Official List remains accurate.
Application documents
We need to receive the following application documents by 12pm (midday), two business days before your desired hearing date.
| Type of application | Listing rule |
|---|---|
| Equity securities | UKLR 20.4.2R |
| Debt and other securities | UKLR 20.5.4R |
How to apply for listing of securities subject to final terms
You can apply for official listing of securities that are the subject of final terms via:
- Emailing [email protected].
- Electronic Submission System portal (ESS) using the 'IM - Admission of Securities' case type.
This ensures the most prompt application and accurate record keeping.
A listing application only needs to be made when the class of securities are listed for the first time.
Final terms should be sent to the FCA and any Recognised Investment Exchange (RIE) on which the securities are to be traded. This should be done when the issuer and its duly authorised officer are certain they are complete, accurate and the securities are suitable for admission.
In accordance with UKLR 20.5.12R, final terms must be submitted in their definitive form by the issuer (as applicant) or their duly authorised officer to the FCA as soon as possible after they have been agreed and no later than 2pm on the business day before listing is to become effective.
Further issues of existing securities already admitted to the Official List via final terms will no longer need to be sent to [email protected].
However, the final terms must still be filed with the FCA under PRM 2.3.9R(2).
This is done by submitting the final terms via ESS. An ESS user will need to navigate to the National Storage Mechanism (NSM) file upload tab and create a case described as 'NSM File Upload'. However, issuers will still need to seek admission to trading on a regulated market where further issues of existing listed securities occur.
No conditional admission
All outstanding conditions must be fulfilled by 4pm the business day prior to the admission is due to become effective. The FCA is not able to make the admission of securities conditional on any event. The FCA may, in particular cases, seek confirmation from an issuer before the admission of securities that the admission does not purport to be conditional on any matter, UKLR 3.1.5G.
Listings – Russia and Belarus sanctions confirmation
Issuers must confirm to us that they are not affected by the following sanctions. Find out what confirmations we need about the effect of sanctions before we can begin work on a vetting, guidance or application request.
Withdrawing an application
If an issuer wishes to withdraw its application, they must inform Listings Data Management as soon as possible, and no later than 7am the morning of the admission is to take effect, by email using [email protected].
The email should include:
- The ESS case number of the application which is being withdrawn.
- Confirmation you have the authority from the issuer to withdraw the application.
- Confirmation that the relevant trading venues have been notified.
If any of the above information is incomplete or not provided, we will not be able to process the withdrawal and the admission of securities to the Official List will proceed.
Once the case has been withdrawn, we will confirm by return of email.
Contact us if you've not received a reply by 7.30am on the day of the admission via the emergency suspension line on 0207 066 8354 (open 7-8am) and then the Listings Data Management helpline on 020 7066 8352 thereafter until 5pm.
Suspending securities from the Official List
To suspend a listing of securities, issuers should review Chapter 21 of the UKLR in the FCA Handbook, in particular UKLR 21.1 which sets out the requirements and examples of when we may suspend.
An issuer must comply with UKLR 21.3 when submitting a request to suspend the listing of its securities and should be made as soon as practicable but should also allow sufficient time for us to deal with the request.
Urgent suspensions
Do not use the ESS for urgent or time-sensitive suspension requests. These include, but are not limited to, initial transactions and issuers who are unable to assess their financial position.
In these circumstances, contact the Primary Market Monitoring (PMM) team:
Emergency helpline: 020 7066 8354
Email: [email protected].
We aim to cover the emergency helpline, where reasonable, outside office hours.
If you have problems contacting this line before 7am, call 0207 066 8324 or 0207 066 9704.
Suspensions for periodic financial reporting
In addition, if issuers cannot, or there is a possibility that they may be unable to, publish their annual or half-year reports by the required deadline in Chapter 4 of the Disclosure Guidance and Transparency Rules, contact the PMM team to discuss whether a suspension is necessary (see UKLR 21.1.2G(2)).
Issuers should contact the PMM team as early as possible ahead of the deadline to allow us enough time to process any suspension request.
An issuer can withdraw their request as per UKLR 21.3.7G if they have published their financial reports before the deadline.
Removing securities from the Official List
To remove a listing, issuers should review Chapter 21 of the UKLR, which sets out the removal requirements for securities admitted to the Official List.
Requests under UKLR 21.3.5R must be made not less than 24 hours before the cancellation is expected to take effect. Issuers should ensure that all accompanying information has been provided to Listings Data Management well before the date that the issuer wishes the cancellation to take effect and at the very latest by 3pm on the business day before it takes effect.
If the information is received after that time, it will normally be specified to take effect at the beginning of the business day after.
Removal requests can be submitted using ESS.
Securities which have matured or otherwise ceased to exist
If securities have matured, or ceased to exist, we will use our powers to administratively remove any references to the securities from the Official List.
For debt securities, we generally work on the basis that debt securities will have fully matured (and ceased to exist) following their redemption date, unless we are notified otherwise. The redemption date is when we were notified in an application and it was included in the Official List.
Issuers should keep us informed of any potential changes to the maturity date of listed securities to ensure the Official List remains accurate.
If you wish to notify us of a security on the Official List that no longer exists, please use ESS to submit this notification.
Contact us
If you have any further questions regarding Chapter 20 and Chapter 21 of the UKLR, contact the Listings Data Management team on 020 7066 8352, or email us.
