Your comments assume 'FTA' is the key ingredient in the equation - it is not. The UK is growing financial services exports in almost all of the markets you men

Your comments assume 'FTA' is the key ingredient in the equation - it is not. The UK is growing financial services exports in almost all of the markets you mentioned, so I don't really see what your point is there. [1] Third - the UK is not 'leaving' European markets, they are changing the terms of trade. Goods and services will continue to flow. (Thankfully, 'services' don't face the fundamental challenges that 'goods' do at the border outside of a customs union) The UK already exports as much financial services to the US as it does to the entire EU [2] and the underlying impetus is fundamentally in the rest of the world. Similar to your comment about Japan - the UK already exports quite a lot in financial services (3 billion pounds/year and growing). " Also, trust me, the Chinese have not forgotten the Opium war" No, I don't trust you. [1] https://colresearch.typepad.com/colresearch/2017/03/trends-and-growth-in-uk-financial-services-trade-.html https://colresearch.typepad.com/colresearch/2017/03/trends-a... [2] https://colresearch.typepad.com/colresearch/2016/08/how-important-is-uk-financial-services-trade-to-the-eu.html https://colresearch.typepad.com/colresearch/2016/08/how-impo...