Re: London Ahead?
Deal!
Engineering Reality check. Ignore Brexit, the major investment banks would love to save Square Mile rent by moving to cheaper premises. But the latency for HFT trading means that *even going outside the M25* is just too much to remain competitive. And you propose Frankfurt?! That’s nearly 10ms behind London to the crucial transatlantic connectors, which land in Cornwall. It’s physics light flight time, plus a bit of repeater delay.
Barnier as Canute “make lightspeed infinite to keep our European credentials pure”!
Plus, absolutely nobody wants to live in Frankfurt. It’s like Slough but without the charm and nightlife. You just don’t earn a million a year and live there. In the finance world, being transferred to Frankfurt is like Traffic Duty for police - it’s the standard way to tell people they are going no further and should resign.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
