Why become a member

•  Liquidity – Gain direct trading access to the world’s deepest pool of liquidity in UK equity, to International Depositary Receipts and other trading instruments. These include Exchange Traded Funds and Commodities, Covered Warrants and Investment Trusts. 

• Technology – Use one of the fastest and most efficient centralised trading venues in the world. Powered by our new trading system TradElect, and information system Infolect, you may trade in absolute confidence, with our unrivalled track record in reliability, neutrality and independence.

• Community – Establish valuable new relationships in our global community of brokers and listed companies, giving you the opportunity to grow your business and company profile in parallel.

How to become a member
We will help you understand the benefits, costs and considerations for Membership, specifically:

• The regulatory requirements for becoming a member
• The Exchange’s trading services and MiFID
• Connectivity to the Exchange’s trading and information services
• Options for clearing and settling your transactions - for a list of accredited clearing and settlement providers, please click here.

Step 1 - Email the Membership Team or call them on +44 (0)207 797 1000

Step 2 - Register for the eContracts service

Step 3 - Complete the Membership application form

Once our Client Implementation Team has granted you access to the eContracts service, you will be able to begin the Membership application process. Please view the Membership application form before signing up for the eContracts service.

General Clearing Member Membership form

If you are a non-member firm wishing to become a member for the purposes of clearing Central Counterparty business in equities, you need to complete the GCM membership form only via the eContracts service.