A experience platform specialising in regulatory compliance will this week outline plans to affix the London stock market in a welcome, and unusual, improve to the Metropolis.

Sky Information understands that RTOP, which works with consumers inside the financial suppliers sector, is to announce that it’s pursuing a direct itemizing in London – a course of which entails a corporation going public with out issuing any new shares.

Metropolis sources said the itemizing was anticipated to value RTOP at about £60m, and was being orchestrated by The AvantGarde Group, the Milan-based enterprise which owns it.

An announcement is predicted as early as Tuesday.

RTOP owns a platform often known as Orbit Open, which helps consumers regulate to difficult regulatory requirements.

It really works with numerous big Italian banks, and hopes {{that a}} London itemizing will broaden its client base.

The agency’s decision to go public inside the UK comes all through a time of intense introspection about London’s future as a magnet for giant agency listings, with the British-based chip designer ARM about to unveil formal proposals for a Nasdaq flotation in New York.

Direct listings of the one being utilized by RTOP are unusual inside the London market, whereas the Metropolis has seen few preliminary public decisions on any important scale this yr.

CAB Funds, a money swap enterprise, raised £335m from a UK IPO closing month, although that data was partly overshadowed by the abandonment of an similar switch by WE soda after it didn’t agree on a valuation with consumers.

RTOP declined to comment.

Supply: data.sky.com”