Thomson Reuters will cease trading on the London Stock Exchange by September 10 after shareholders in the Anglo-Canadian media and information group overwhelmingly approved its plan to scrap its dual listed company structure.

Just 2.7 per cent of London-based shareholders opposed the planned unification, which will leave the group with listings in Toronto and New York, 25 years after Reuters floated on the LSE and more than 150 years after it began providing London market prices.