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Dec 2020

22m 51s

Financial services after Brexit

Financial Times

About this episode

The City of London is home to some of the world’s biggest banks and busiest exchanges but the UK is just weeks away from leaving the EU single market and many questions about access to the bloc are still unresolved. Philip Stafford, editor of FT Trading Room, and Stephen Morris, the FT’s banking editor, take a look at the future of financial services after Brexit.

Review clips: BBC News, CNBC, EU 27

Read more on the FT’s coverage of Brexit here:

Brexit trade talks: the three big sticking points explained

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