The City is one of the world’s foremost financial centres exactly because of what went on under the carpet in the last 30 years… call it accounting proficiency in the beginning, facilitation next, hedging and venturing in the end. Of course, all kind of customers felt increasingly safe to do any sort of business, which started being exposed to the general public 15 years ago, the night Barclays almost went under, HSBC got caught with their trousers down, and Gordon Brown had to save the day in order not to declare systemic bankruptcy. The UK financial industry hugely benefitted from being half in, half out the EU… call it fortune, if you want.