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Alexei Yakovitsky, VTB Capital’s |
Ever since the UK voted in June to leave the EU, the hunt has been on for the canary in the City of London’s metaphorical coal mine – the first big bank, fund or other financial firm to announce definite plans to take its business elsewhere after Brexit.
On October 11, it seemed that it had finally been located in reports that Russia’s VTB Bank is planning to shift its international investment banking operation to continental Europe in response to the UK’s referendum result.
The speed with which VTB moved to refute the story, however, suggests that reports of the death of the canary – and the City of London – may be premature.
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