Bingo! The London Stock Exchange has come up with such an astonishingly brilliant – and simple – idea to help solve Britain’s age-old funding problem for scaling up companies that you wonder why it has never been done before.

Not only has no exchange come up with this game-changing concept but the London market is the first in the world to launch what’s being called the Intermittent Trading Venue – or ITV for now. Companies and investors are hailing its innovation all over the globe and, in the best form of flattery, the New York exchanges are also said to be experimenting with a similar platform.