SMITH BRAIN TRUST — London has long been Wall Street’s gateway to the European Union. If the city loses its link to the euro, about 40,000 expatriates from big U.S. banks might have to move to Frankfurt, Germany. Smith School professor Albert "Pete" Kyle says that won’t be so easy because Frankfurt is smaller than Charlotte, N.C. "You can’t possibly imagine the whole American banking industry moving from New York to Charlotte any more than you can imagine the European banking industry moving from London to Frankfurt," he tells Marketplace Radio. "It’s just not a big enough city to absorb it." Paris and Dublin also remain in the mix. Read more...
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