US bank JPMorgan Chase & Co said it plans to buy a building in central Paris to house up to 450 staff in coming years, as it relocates some services from London after Britain’s exit from the EU.
The expansion is expected to make the French capital, where it currently has 260 staff, its second-largest base in Europe behind London, which has 10,000 staff, JPMorgan said.
The bank is to initially transfer sales teams, followed by trading staff, depending on the timing of Britain’s full withdrawal from the EU, JPMorgan France chief executive officer Kyril Courboin said.
“Paris is going to be the second pole for our market activities in Europe,” he said. “London will still be number one because we are only transferring euro activities.”
That reflects a wider trend of banks shifting selected activities to euro-zone cities ahead of Brexit, without calling into question London’s dominance as Europe’s premier financial center.
An acceleration in the Brexit process, with Britain now due to leave the EU on Jan. 31 and negotiate a new relationship with the bloc during the rest of this year, had prompted JPMorgan to go ahead with relocation plans, Courboin said, adding that political reforms to labor law and the fiscal environment had encouraged it to favor France.
The building purchase was announced on Sunday as part of the “Choose France” drive, an annual event created by French President Emmanuel Macron.
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