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JPMorgan chief executive Jamie Dimon has warned that US banks would have to uproot their London-based staff if the EU orders them to do so after the UK leaves the political bloc, underscoring the potential impact of Brexit on the City of London. While JPMorgan currently plans to shift “several hundred” of the bank’s 16,000 UK staff to the continent as soon as the UK leaves the EU, Mr Dimon said the bank would have no choice but to move more people if European banking supervisors insisted. “If the EU determines over time that they want to move a lot more jobs out of London into the EU, they can simply dictate that,” he told European finance executives and politicians gathered in Paris on Tuesday.

Dimon warns EU could force banks to move staff out of UK

Britain’s economy will lose momentum this year amid squeezed living standards and uncertainty over Brexit and the inconclusive election result, leading ratings agencies have predicted. Moody’s said the qualms about talks in Brussels and the minority government have increased the UK’s political and financial risks. Analysts at the ratings agency said the UK economy has started to slow and they expect it to weaken considerably throughout the rest of the year, adding that it was unclear if the government could deliver a “reasonably good” Brexit deal.

Political upheaval will lead to UK economy slowing down, says Moody's | Business | The Guardian