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Financial Services, the EU, and Brexit: An Uncertain Future for the City?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 March 2019

Niamh Moloney*
Affiliation:
London School of Economics and Political Science, Law Department [N.Moloney@lse.ac.uk]

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The financial services industry is of central importance to the UK economy. It represents some 7% of GDP. It also generates major exports for the UK - in the region of one-third of UK financial services are exported to the EU. News reports in the immediate aftermath of the referendum result included the sharp drop in banking stocks; the overtures being made to attract UK financial business away from the City to other EU centres; and plans by leading financial institutions to move some operations away from the City. Vivid illustrations all of the importance of the Brexit vote for the City and the UK financial services industry.

Type
Brexit Special Supplement
Copyright
Copyright © 2016 by German Law Journal, Inc. 

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