The London Stock Exchange announced today that KSK Emerging India Energy Fund Limited (“KEF”) has become the fourth Indian firm to float on AIM in the last four weeks. Between them the four new Indian firms have raised an estimated $387 million.

Companies raised a record £23.7 billion through new and further issues on the London Stock Exchange’s markets during May, the most money ever raised on the Exchange’s equity markets in a single month. This was nearly three times the £8.6 billion raised during May 2007 and double the £11.2 billion raised during July 2006, the previous record month.

The average daily number of trades carried out across the equity order books of the London Stock Exchange and Borsa Italiana during May 2008 was 906,913, an increase of 13 per cent on May last year. The average daily value traded during May was £12.7 billion (€16.2 billion), a fall of ten percent on May 2007, but an increase of 11 per cent on April 2008.

EDX London’s Russian IOB Derivatives service enjoyed a record month during May 2008 with more than 1.3 million contracts traded. This was the first time that trading volumes have exceeded 1 million contracts in a single month, exceeding the previous monthly record by 41 per cent. Trading volumes during May were 62 per cent higher than for April, more than double the month-on-month growth rate of 30 per cent for the first four months of the year.

The London Stock Exchange today announces the establishment of a new service to offer equity research on smaller quoted companies. PSQ Analytics, as the venture will be called, will be available to companies on AIM as well as smaller companies on the Main Market, and will provide information that improves investor understanding of their businesses.

In summary, the enlarged Group has delivered an excellent overall performance, reflecting strong organic growth and the merger with Borsa Italiana:

The London Stock Exchange today welcomed its sixth and seventh international companies to the Main Market and PSM in less than four weeks:

So far this calendar year, the average daily number of electronic equity trades carried out on the London Stock Exchange and Borsa Italiana has been 1,076,107, an increase of 43 per cent on the first four months of 2007 and a record for the first four months of a year.

The London Stock Exchange today celebrated the admission to trading of Magnit, which takes the number of companies from Russia and the Commonwealth of Independent States on the Exchange's markets to 100. The company's GDR issue in London will supplement existing Magnit listings on the RTS and MICEX stock exchanges.

The number of electronic equity trades carried out on the London Stock Exchange and Borsa Italiana during March 2008 averaged 1.1 million per day, an increase of 33 per cent on March 2007, which at the time was a record month on both exchanges' markets. A total of 21.2 million equity trades were carried out during the month.

Unless otherwise stated, the following commentary refers to the 11 months ended 29 February 2008 and, where appropriate, to the corresponding period last year. Figures for Borsa Italiana refer to the same time periods although the business has only been part of London Stock Exchange Group since 1 October 2007.

New records were achieved in trading on the equity order books of Borsa Italiana and the London Stock Exchange during January 2008. The average daily number of electronic equity trades carried out across the two exchanges increased 85 per cent on January last year to 1.3 million, while the average daily value traded grew 45 per cent to £15.3 billion (€20.5 billion).