Many of the big banks, investment funds, and large insurance companies have announced that hundreds to thousands of employees are being relocated to group members European Union countries. The UK financial industry is on track to lose within two years much more than the previously forecast 75,000 direct high paying financial services jobs and with those will go the back office support and compliance jobs attached.

Based on current announcements by JP Morgan, Citi, UBS, Lloyds, HSBC, Barclays, Deutsche Bank, Standard Charter, Goldman Sachs, among others, more than 20,000 job relocations have already been announced that will occur. In total 232,000 financial jobs will leave London to EU financial centers such as those already announced to be receiving thousands of these positions: Dublin, Milan, Frankfurt, Paris.

The clearing of euro-denominated derivatives is highly likely to move to the euro area, like the ECB has long demanded. It brings 54,000 jobs, according to consultancy firm Oliver Wyman, which would rise to 232,000 including indirect jobs, according to the classified report by Ernst & Young for the London Stock Exchange.

Example of relocations announced include UBS that is moving 20% of its bankers, being 1,000 of its 5,000 from London to the EU. HSBC is moving 1,000 of its bankers to Paris, representing 20% of its London trading income. JP Morgan is relocating 1,000 employees pre-BREXIT to Ireland and is investigating where to move another 3,000 more post BREXIT. Deutsche Bank is moving half of its workforce, 4,000 jobs, out of the London. Barclays has made plans to move hundreds of bankers to its EU group banks. Standard Charter has had discussions with German regulators about moving its European-focused operations to Frankfurt. Goldman Sachs is moving hundreds pre-BREXIT out of London to the EU. The insurance industry is also moving. Thus, high paying UK law, accountancy, and audit jobs will also be lost. The UK will no longer feature as a player in EU and in world finance.

And these jobs losses are coming regardless of whether the UK pays the EU demand for $109 billion (see CNN) as the break-up settlement for the UK’s share of future subsidies to EU institutions and farmers.

And the worse is yet to come. As if the loss of its major job producer, the loss of a hundred billion of tax revenue, payment of another hundred billion to the EU, and loss of political stature, wasn’t enough, the UK will likely lose territorial sovereignty over Gibraltar. The EU has given Spain a veto right over any deal with the UK unless the UK agrees to Spanish demands for Gibraltar. Telegraph article Northern Ireland is specifically mentioned in the EU Negotiation Parameters. It may decide to unify with its Southern brethren rather than lose the EU rights and rebuild the border to stop the free trade and free movement that will no longer be allowed by the EU.

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