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Re:Doom, Gloom and Unease: London's Tech Scene Reacts to Brexit by dr_ick on Friday June 24, 2016 @03:09PM (#11972540)
So no companies have announced they are moving. They are evaluating the situation, as any responsible corporation should.

The UK banking system is not about to collapse.

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Re:Doom, Gloom and Unease: London's Tech Scene Reacts to Brexit by justin66 on Friday June 24, 2016 @03:16PM (#11972599)
London will give up its position as "world financial capital," I would think. That always seemed a bit odd, and now that they're losing one of their main advantages...
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Re:Doom, Gloom and Unease: London's Tech Scene Reacts to Brexit by ommunist on Friday June 24, 2016 @04:46PM (#11973327)
They are gaining one! Swiss banking privacy rules down under EU pressure. The UK now have freedom to keep large money more private than Swiss can do from now.
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Re:Doom, Gloom and Unease: London's Tech Scene Reacts to Brexit by justin66 on Friday June 24, 2016 @06:08PM (#11973885)
That's exactly opposite of what the United States has been pushing for the last couple of decades in terms of banking secrecy, pretty successfully. The U.K. could alienate the US government right now, but I bet they won't.
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Re:Doom, Gloom and Unease: London's Tech Scene Reacts to Brexit by ori_b on Friday June 24, 2016 @05:14PM (#11973530)
Switzerland is not part of the EU. Why do you think that the UK have more freedom in this case?
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Re:Doom, Gloom and Unease: London's Tech Scene Reacts to Brexit by ommunist on Friday June 24, 2016 @05:37PM (#11973694)
Switzerland already bent its traditional legislation to comply with new EU ruling about banks secrets snd reporting. The UK banking just got its chance.
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Re:Doom, Gloom and Unease: London's Tech Scene Reacts to Brexit by riffraff on Friday June 24, 2016 @06:27PM (#11973979)
Switzerland did that because the alternative was, concretely, losing the ability to keep foreign customers, so they chose the lesser evil. Why do you think it would be different for the UK?
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Re:Doom, Gloom and Unease: London's Tech Scene Reacts to Brexit by joeyspn on Friday June 24, 2016 @09:45PM (#11974792)
> The UK banking system is not about to collapse.

Santander -20%. Lloyds -21%. Barclays -18%... etc

Nothing to see here, everything is ok...

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