City of London Brexit hit worse than expected, says study | MarketScreener
Over 400 financial firms in Britain have shifted activities, staff & a combined trillion pounds ($1.4 trillion) in assets to hubs in the EU due to Brexit, with more pain to come marketscreener.com/quote/currency…
This is from a study from New Financial think tank.
"We think it is an underestimate and we expect the numbers to increase over time: we are only at the end of the beginning of Brexit”
I have to say it might not have been expected by some, but it certainly was by others
Dublin has emerged as the biggest beneficiary with 135 relocations, followed by
Paris with 102,
Luxembourg 95,
Frankfurt 63, and
Amsterdam 48.
“This redistribution of activity across the EU has wound the clock back by about 20 years,” the study said.
Banks have moved or are moving over 900 billion pounds in assets from Britain to the EU, while insurers and asset managers have transferred over 100 billion pounds in assets and funds, reducing the UK tax base.
“We expect Frankfurt will be the ‘winner’ in terms of assets in the longer-term, and that Paris will ultimately be the biggest beneficiary in terms of jobs,” the study
There have been 130 more relocations than their 2019 suggested.
The Johnson + Frost team in action.
It had been projected that maybe 1k new smaller offices might be opened in the U.K.
India looked like it had beaten Covid, but cases are now skyrocketing. What changed?
“Loved ones wailing outside hospitals, ambulances queued up with patients, crematoria and graveyards drowning in dead bodies, failed resuscitations” independent.co.uk/asia/india/cov…
Families scrambling for beds, plasma, and even basic medical supplies such as oxygen, stretchers and ventilators: these are common scenes witnessed across India.
Families Sending out pleas on Twitter for oxygen, drugs, beds.
What changed from just three months ago?
Maharashtra was painted as an outlier a few weeks ago.
Now hospitals out of capacity. Reports of doctors not even able to find beds for their own.
No longer. It is worse now than at any point last year.
Covid-19 appears to have jumped between neighbouring rooms in hotel quarantine in Sydney after seven cases of people arriving from different countries were revealed to have the same viral sequence.
Jerome Powell is reminded of the country's slow economic recovery with a growing homeless encampment outside of the Federal Reserve - The Washington Post washingtonpost.com/business/2021/…
Powell doesn’t know their names or backstories, either. But what he saw was clear. A visceral reminder of the uneven economic recovery. Right there in the Fed’s shadow.
Somehow comforting that someone so powerful is concerned about you.
But who are the “you”?
“They need to be in the room with us as we make decisions”
That is quite a thought.
But there are no rooms at what advocates claim 21st and E.
In fact many of the people seeking shelter here have more elemental concerns.
The 1st Kyle knew was when he got a text from his mate a couple of days before Easter telling him there were to be riots on the Saturday night. There was a list of places and times & Kyle, who is 17, understood that it had been circulated by paramilitaries irishtimes.com/life-and-style…
“I don’t even like the paramilitaries. When I was younger a boy that was in a UDA family hated me and he used to bully me. He threw eggs at old people’s houses and blamed me. They threatened to do my knees. I told my da and he went and threatened them back. He doesn’t like them”
“They put him out of his house one time because he beat a guy that threatened to shoot him. It was over someone else that owed them money
That’s when we moved to where we live now”
The superspreader events that governments let happen - Macleans.ca
“Canada’s largest superspreader events were in workplaces vulnerable to swift infection spread and where workers had little power to keep themselves completely safe.” macleans.ca/society/health…
When BC’s provincial medical officergave the green light for skiers to hit Whistler’s slopes last Feb. 5, the resort town was already dealing with a lot of COVID-19 cases. 12,000 permanent residents & many seasonal staff, Whistler had had 547 infections the month previous,
That amounts to a rate of 2,193 cases per 100,000 people.
Quite QUITE extraordinary that a Chief Medical Officer would then given the green light to the season.
Cameron, hired in May 2019 to help provide “global counsel on critical issues”, has previously described such legal tax reduction strategies as “frankly morally wrong” and “not fair on hardworking people” thetimes.co.uk/article/ex-pm-…
Afiniti, which says it sells software for call centres to clients that include the AA and Axa, was founded in 2005 in the US by Zia Chishti.
The company has been domiciled in British Overseas Territory, Bermuda, described “the world’s worst corporate tax haven”, since 2011.
By being domiciled there the value of their intellectual property and “capital surplus” is held in the Bermuda company thus reducing tax liability in the U.K. (amongst other countries).