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How Brexit reduced the City of London’s financial clout – new research

The Conversation · 🇦🇺 public Australia · · 728 words · By Adeola Y Oyebowale; Amr Saber Algarhi
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What to know about How Brexit reduced the City of London’s financial clout – new research

The article analyzes how Brexit altered the UK's financial relationship with Europe, showing a shift from being a net transmitter of financial shocks to a net recipient. It cites research on volatility spillover scores and discusses the relocation of financial firms to EU cities.

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What happened

The whole point of Brexit was to change the UK’s relationship with Europe.

Why it matters

And one of the less visible shifts has occurred in the financial markets, affecting pension funds and the cost of borrowing.

Common ground

Before the referendum, when London’s stock market sneezed, Europe caught a cold.

Perspective signals

No major persuasion pattern has been attached yet, so the source, headline, and evidence should carry most of the weight for readers.

The article analyzes how Brexit altered the UK's financial relationship with Europe, showing a shift from being a net transmitter of financial shocks to a net recipient. It cites research on volatility spillover scores and discusses the relocation of financial firms to EU cities.

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fact_checkClaims Checked

eFinder analyzed this article and checked 19 claims against available evidence, cross-references, web search, and Wikipedia. Here is what the fact-checking layer found.

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Claim 1: “The new system, driven by legal changes, relocations and regulatory divergence in financial services now shows no sign of changing.”
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Claim 2: “Before Brexit, the UK had a net volatility spillover score of +11.8, meaning it sent far more financial turbulence into Europe than it received.”
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Wikipedia entries about unrelated topics (e.g., .uk domain, Reform UK) do not directly confirm the specific claim about the UK's volatility score pre-Brexit.
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Claim 3: “Our comparison featured a specialist financial metric called a 'net volatility spillover score' which measures the difference between the amount of risk (volatility) a specific market transmits and receives from other markets.”
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No evidence found in cross-references, web search, or Wikipedia to confirm or refute the claim about the 'net volatility spillover score' being used.
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Claim 4: “Germany’s transmitting influence grew by nearly 50%, and Italy transformed from a shock absorber into the second most influential market in the system.”
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Claim 5: “We observed daily movements of the stock markets in nine European countries, comparing two five-year periods: before the Brexit vote (2011–2016) and after the UK left the EU (2020–2025).”
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Wikipedia entries about Brexit events do not directly confirm the specific claim about a study comparing stock market volatility periods.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The 2016 United Kingdom European Union membership referendum, commonly referred to as the EU referendum or the Brexit referendum, was a referendum that took place on 23 June 2016 in the United Kingdom…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Brexit (; a portmanteau of "Britain" and "Exit") was the withdrawal of the United Kingdom (UK) from the European Union (EU). Brexit took place at 23:00 GMT on 31 January 2020 (00:00 1 February 2020 CE…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Between 2017 and 2019, representatives of the United Kingdom and the European Union negotiated the terms of Brexit, the UK's planned withdrawal from membership of the EU. These negotiations arose foll…
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Claim 6: “Before the referendum, when London’s stock market sneezed, Europe caught a cold.”
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Wikipedia entries about Brexit's economic effects and withdrawal agreement do not directly confirm the specific claim about pre-Brexit UK 너트 market volatility affecting Europe.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Brexit withdrawal agreement, officially titled Agreement on the withdrawal of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland from the European Union and the European Atomic Energy Commun…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The economic effects of Brexit were a major area of debate during and after the referendum on UK membership of the European Union. The majority of economists believe that Brexit has harmed the UK's ec…
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Claim 7: “After Brexit, that score fell to –5.5. The UK now absorbs more shocks from Europe than it sends, making it a net recipient of volatility.”
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No evidence found in cross-references, web search, or Wikipedia to confirm or refute the claim about the UK's volatility score post-Brexit.
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Claim 8: “None of this means London is finished as a financial centre.”
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Claim 9: “UK firms seeking to raise capital from European investors may face higher costs, because European markets are now less attuned to British price signals.”
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Claim 10: “More than 440 financial firms moved at least some of their operations from the UK to the EU, taking with them more than £900 billion in bank assets.”
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Claim 11: “The European financial network did not shrink – it just reorganised.”
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Claim 12: “The whole point of Brexit was to change the UK’s relationship with Europe.”
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Claim 13: “One of the less visible shifts has occurred in the financial markets, affecting pension funds and the cost of borrowing.”
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No evidence found in cross-references, web search, or Wikipedia to confirm or refute the claim about financial market shifts impacting pension funds and borrowing costs.
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Claim 14: “The financial relationship between the UK and the EU has flipped.”
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No evidence found in cross-references, web search, or Wikipedia to confirm or refute the claim about the financial relationship between the UK and EU flipping.
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Claim 15: “London’s diminished role in European markets looks set to stay.”
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Claim 16: “European investors stopped reacting to UK market signals as strongly as they once did.”
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No evidence found in cross-references, web search, or Wikipedia to confirm or refute the claim about European investors' responsiveness to UK market signals.
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Claim 17: “The change came after decades of London being the focus of European finance – and what’s known as a 'net transmitter' of financial shocks.”
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Wikipedia entries about Brexit timelines do not directly confirm the specific claim about London's historical role as a net transmitter of financial shocks.
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Claim 18: “London was not replaced by a single city, but by a range of European centres (including Frankfurt, Paris and Dublin) which all absorbed enough activity to reshape the network.”
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Claim 19: “The UK’s role has fundamentally changed. It has gone from setting the tempo to following the beat from elsewhere.”
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