19/01/2017 World Business Report

Now for the latest financial news with World Business Report.

Brexodus fears grow in the City of London, as leading firms warn

thousands of staff may now be relocated.

No arrest warrant for Samsung boss Jay Y Lee.

but prosecutors vow to continue the corruption

We'll be live in Seoul in just a moment.

We start here in London, where fears of a costly Brexit

Leading firms are now weighing up moving thousands of staff out

of the UK, after Prime Minister Theresa May confirmed plans to leave

the European Single Market as well as the EU,

On Wednesday, the boss of HSBC said he's preparing to move

around 1000 of his 5000 London staff to Paris.

That would mean around 20% of its European revenue leaving

the UK, worth several billion dollars.

also told the BBC that 1000 jobs may go in London as a result of Brexit,

again around a fifth of its workforce.

And according to a report in the Handelsblatt newspaper

in Germany this morning, Goldman Sachs may halve its London

workforce, moving 3000 staff to New York and Continental Europe,

Goldman though says it has yet to make a decision on the matter

However, some believe this could be the tip of the iceberg

Back in October, consultants Oliver Wyman warned 75,000 UK

jobs are at risk if financial companies based here lose the right

Theresa May is addressing the World Economic Forum

in Davos today, she will also be meeting the bosses of some

of the big banks including Goldman Sachs and JP Morgan

Yesterday, Pierre Moscovici, former French Finance Minister,

now EU commissioner for Economic and Financial Affairs,

Taxation and Customs, spoke to our economics

He denied the EU would try to punish Britain for leaving the EU.

It is not about punishment. I said that we need to find a balanced and

positive agreement. I said we are friends and must work together. They

even said so in the European Parliament this morning in Davos.

But we must be clear that you cannot have all the advantages of being a

member of the club when you are out of the club. Our British friends

will bleed invented clubs. -- probably. They can understand that.

There you. That is one view. And now for another view.

Olivier Vardakoulias is Senior Economist

The plot has thickened. No surprise at all to hear some of the big

banks, global banks, who have big operations in London, are now

rethinking. Yes. That is because they perceive she has made

unattainable pledges. She will go for a hard Brexit, exiting the

Common Market and the EU and also the common union. What they are

afraid of, and rightly so, is basically that this will not

guarantee the so-called passport writes. Explain those rights for

those uninitiated in financial services. Any bank located, or

investment bank, located in the country, has the right to do

business in any European country, without needing to have an agreement

with individual member states of the EU. That is why, for example, you

have many American investment banks based in London. That is because

they can do business in whatever European country freely. That will

not be the case if the UK does not manage to reach a special agreement

for accessing the special European market. These banks will have to

negotiate and basically the UK will have to negotiate individually with

different member states. Quite frankly, the easy solution for these

banks is to relocate part of their activities on the continent. Not all

of them, part of them. It is interesting. When you look at the

sentiment from both sides, like Donald Tusk saying it will be a

difficult negotiation process, Theresa May saying if they do not

get the vote they want they will exit completely. In that situation,

what do we see for the future of the city of London in terms of how it

will operate? She implied in her speech that she will change the

goalposts in terms of how things go in London, taxing, regulation, so it

becomes better on the ground. Yeah. I think there are two things here.

Political posturing, if you want. On the one hand, you know, the way that

Theresa May presented that to European partners is that they will

withdraw from the European Court of Justice and so on. And then I will

try to basically seek market access without being part of the EU. And if

you do not do what I want, we will move offshore. Basically a tax haven

in the UK, that kind of model. She will try to liberalise the financial

sector even more, at our risk and peril, as the 2008 crisis showed,

and replaced the job losses from respectable bank activities by

attracting things like hedge funds or other financial activities. Now,

this is a very risky strategy. Not just because obviously it can

trigger different kinds of financial fragility within the system, but it

is also bad news for British working families. Turning the UK into a bank

haven will not help those who voted to leave the EU. Very interesting.

Thank you for your time today. I am sure I will talk to you again before

we leave the EU officially. Thank you for coming in. We will go to

South Korea next. That is where a growing

corruption scandal has led to the impeachment

of President Park Geun-hye, and has been threatening to suck

in the boss of Samsung, Some good news for him

in the past few hours though. Mr Lee was held by prosecutors

overnight on Wednesday, but early this morning he's been

allowed to go home after a court in Seoul threw out

a warrant for his arrest. Prosecutors wanted him arrested

on suspicion of bribery, embezzlement and perjury,

charges he denies. Let's talk to the BBC's

Kevin Kim in Seoul. He has been covering this for us. I

hope you are there. Tell us more about the latest and what happens

today. The last 24 hours were some of the longest and most dramatic for

Jay Y Lee. At the city jail, the head of the biggest company in South

Korea waited through the night until there was a decision to release in.

Early in the morning the judges said there was no sufficient reason to

put him behind bars. He was then seen walking out of jail with a

slight smile. Apparently he then went straight to work. I understand

the prosecutors are saying we will pursue this. We will not waver. They

seem to be very determined despite the decision of the judge. That is

correct. The message Jay Y Lee wanted to send is business as usual.

But this may not be the end of the problems for the chief of Samsung.

The company has been accused of bribery. He may still have to face a

trial if prosecutors face charges. The allegations are that he gave

millions of dollars in return for the votes of the national pension

fund in a big restructuring of the company. But in the meantime, Jay Y

Lee still stays a free man. Great to talk to you again. Thank you for

now. He was in Seoul for us. Squeezing in some other stories.

Renegotiating the Nafta trade deal with Canada and Mexico is the Trump

administration's top trade priority, according to commerce secretary

He was speaking to US senators at a confirmation hearing

Mr Ross said China was the "most protectionist" country among large

economies, but said Nafta is "logically,

the first thing for us to deal with."

Shares in TV streaming service Netflix soared as much as 9%

on the news it is growing much faster than expected.

Netflix added just over seven million new subscribers in the last

three months of 2016, a third more than forecast,

and expects to break the 100 million mark by the end of March.

Netflix has invested heavily in original content while ending

deals with top studios, a gamble that is paying off.

Financial markets. A mixed day. Good news for Japan. The Japanese yen

weakening. You can see the pound is keeping a close eye on it. Janet

Yellen talking yesterday in San Francisco saying that rates in the

US could be up again. They are predicting the month of March. That

is what is happening. I will see you again soon as we will review the

stories in the news in just a moment.

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