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Western EuropeNovember 1 2016

What can a post-Brexit UK can learn from Switzerland?

At Sibos 2016 in late September, The Banker chaired a frank discussion of the challenges and options faced by the UK as it prepares to leave the EU, and whether it could take a leaf from the Swiss book. Dan Barnes reports.
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The UK is to quit the EU as the result of the June 2016 referendum which saw a majority of 52% vote to leave the bloc.

At the Sibos conference on September 29 2016, Brian Caplen, editor of The Banker, hosted a debate on the macroeconomic and political issues that now face the UK’s financial services community. The conference in Geneva was an opportunity to gather an expert panel of Swiss, German and British industry leaders to debate what the UK could learn from the Swiss experience of a European country that operates outside of the EU.

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