RBS Head Says Banks Need Brexit Transition Details by Early 2018
- Lack of details could ‘accelerate’ job exodus from capital
- ‘Relatively small’ number of RBS jobs will move to Amsterdam
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Royal Bank of Scotland Group Plc Chairman Howard Davies said details of a post-Brexit transitional deal with the European Union need to be outlined in the next five months to stop more financial-services jobs from leaving London.
“If there are no details by the first quarter of next year, the number of moves of people out of London will accelerate,” Davies said on Sky News Sunday. If nothing is certain by then, “I think people will trigger those contingency plans” requested by the Bank of England for the U.K. exit from the EU.