The Brexit chickens are coming home to roost for one of the world’s foremost cities — London. According to a Bloomberg report, bankers are leaving the city in large numbers for European destinations such as Frankfurt and Paris. The reasoning is simple: London will no longer give investment houses access to the European market once the UK steps out of the EU. Bloomberg says some 9,000 bankers are leaving for "destinations not yet known", while 2,600 are heading for Frankfurt and 1,400 are off to Paris. Going to Frankfurt are UBS, Goldman Sachs and Nomura, while HSBC and Société Générale are off to Paris. Citigroup has also chosen Frankfurt as its new trading hub in the EU. From the report: "Even as the chance remains for a UK deal maintaining some sort of access to the single market, banks are preparing for the worst and want to have new or expanded offices up and running inside the bloc before the UK formally departs in 2019." And Reuters reports that "London’s economy is wobbling f...
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