Changes To The AIM Rules Disclosure Requirements

Minor changes to the ongoing disclosure requirements in AIM Rule 26 have come into force, following AIM's designation as an SME Growth Market at the start of 2018. More significant changes relating to corporate governance disclosure, on which the London Stock Exchange (LSE) has been consulting, are likely to take place in June 2018.

MiFID II changes

The SME Growth Market designation was developed by the EU Commission as part of its capital markets union plan, which aims to develop more integrated capital markets within the EU. It is an eligibility requirement for SME Growth Markets that certain regulatory information remains available for five years once published.

In practice this means that an AIM company must have the following available on its website for a period of five years from publication: