Dataset as of 16 October 2026 · 176 rows from 1 January 2026
No rows were added to the dataset in this window, so the tape is unchanged from the last edition: cancellations continue to outnumber admissions on the year to date, and venue transfers remain a large share of what does reach admission. Because nothing new was recorded, this commentary describes the standing position rather than a fresh week of activity.
Coverage: no trading days added in this window; dataset as of 16 October 2026, running from 1 January 2026.
1. Net flow stays negative on the year to date
The dataset records 39 admissions against 63 cancellations since 1 January 2026, a net flow of -24, as of 16 October 2026. The cancellation side of the tape remains the larger of the two counts. With no rows added in this window, that balance is unchanged from the previous edition; it describes the accumulated year rather than any single week's movement.
2. Transfers, not new issues, remain the bulk of admissions
Of the 39 admissions on record, the share that are venue transfers is published at 0.41, or roughly four in ten, with a sample of 39 against a minimum of 5 — as of 16 October 2026. In other words, most admissions logged this year are transfers of an existing listing between venues rather than fresh issues. A company preparing a London Main Market admission should read that as context for how the tape is composed, not as a comment on its own timeline.
3. The preparation gap is published at 22.0 days
Where an intention to float (ITF — the formal announcement that a company plans to list) is followed by an admission, the median gap between the two is published at 22.0 days, on a sample of 7 against a minimum of 5, as of 16 October 2026. That figure speaks to the elapsed time between announcement and admission among those that completed. The post-ITF completion rate is withheld because the sample is too small to mean anything, and this commentary does not estimate it.
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4. Suspensions and standing intentions
The dataset records 54 suspensions on the year to date. Intentions to float on record number 8, of which 1 is live and 0 are stale, as of 16 October 2026. Money raised is stated by 17 of the 39 admissions, totalling GBP 1,613,758,986; the remaining admissions do not state a figure in the dataset, and none is inferred here.
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Sources
- Investegate RNS announcements — the source the daily append reads
Counts, samples and withheld figures in this edition are derived by lib/tape.ts from the rows in tape/current.json as of 2026-10-16, which is the same file the page reads.