Bloomberg reports that banks, insurers and other financial-services firms may eliminate about 3,000 jobs across greater London as companies in the New York region add 9,000, according to U.K.-based researcher Oxford Economics Ltd.
London’s proximity to the debt crisis is undermining the city’s efforts to gain on its trans-Atlantic rival. While Wall Street also is suffering from a global slowdown in trading and deal-making, North American banks are benefiting from a surge in consumer lending.
'Europe is still going into deeper waters, which would make London less attractive, more risky” for employers, said John A. Challenger, Chief Executive officer of Chicago-based Challenger, Gray & Christmas Inc., which advises firms on workforce reductions. 'Momentum for the lead has turned back toward New York and the U.S'.
Reductions will be particularly acute in London’s wholesale financial-services industry, which may cut 25,200 positions this year, according to the Centre for Economics and Business Research Ltd.
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