London Is Europe’s New Trading Hub Replacing Amsterdam
- ByStartupStory | July 3, 2021
London is Europe’s new trading hub replacing Amsterdam since Brexit pushed much of the city’s business volume to the continent. Analysing business statistics, of June, it is evident that London pushed ahead of Amsterdam, an average of 8.92 billion euros ($10.6 billion) of shares a day were traded on various London venues in June, compared with 8.8 billion euros for various Dutch venues, according to data from Cboe Europe. This compares with about 9.4 billion euros average daily trading value for Amsterdam in May and around 8.7 billion euros in London. Paris, the third largest venue, saw its daily trading decline from almost 6.1 billion euros in May to 5.8 billion euros in June. London’s return to the top spot is a welcome boost for the stock trading sector buffeted by Brexit,but the city’s lead over Amsterdam is only a slight percentage of what it was before the end of the transition period. In December, London’s share trading volumes stood at 14.3 billion euros compared to 2.2 billion euros for Amsterdam, according to Cboe data.
It was in December that Britain lost its rights to access the European Union’s single market and the bloc has not permitted investors inside its borders to trade shares in companies such as Airbus SE and BNP Paribas SA from the UK .The EU could eventually reopen access by recognizing the UK markets as equivalent to its own, though there is little sign of movement in this process. London has gained some volumes this year from Swiss equity trading, which resumed after the UK dropped out of an EU-wide ban that has been in place since 2019. “The return of Swiss share trading has helped overturn what has been just a temporary phase,” said Alberto Tocchio, a portfolio manager at Kairos Partners. “London will soon regain the status of European and global trading hub and it could easily benefit from being away from the restrictive EU rules.”
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