--- id: 154 title: "London Stock Exchange Takes 2012 Award in Europe" award_year: 2012 published: 2012-09-10 19:37:08 published_gmt: 2012-09-10 19:37:08 author: "CFI.co Editorial" url: "https://cfi.co/awards/europe/2012/london-stock-exchange-takes-2012-award-in-europe/" categories: ["Europe", "Exchanges & Brokers", "Finance"] content_class: award_rationale independence_status: independent_editorial sponsor_disclosure: none editorial_lens: constructive_positive_lens historical_status: current_at_publication correction_status: none archive_policy: no_delete provenance_layer: github_versioned wayback_status: archived wayback_first_snapshot: 20210614184035 wayback_snapshot_url: "http://web.archive.org/web/20210614184035/https://cfi.co/awards/europe/2012/london-stock-exchange-takes-2012-award-in-europe/" license: CFI-OAAL-1.0 content_sha256: 76948012383c4dc74b707b0bb828521ea16efa5fa824164489b2e9771e28bbb1 canonical: 154-london-stock-exchange-takes-2012-award-in-europe.json --- # London Stock Exchange Takes 2012 Award in Europe > Verbatim archived copy. Canonical machine record: `154-london-stock-exchange-takes-2012-award-in-europe.json`.

London is the home of the largest stock exchange in Europe and ranks fourth globally.
There are around 3000 listed companies from 60 countries around the world and the judging panel noted that London is particularly strong in emerging markets ETFs.