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Standard Chartered CEO Bill Winters: Brexit is inconvenient and expensive

Banking boss can find few positives for the City about the Brexit vote

Standard Chartered CEO Bill Winters: Brexit is inconvenient and expensive
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The chief executive of London-listed Standard Chartered has branded his bank’s preparations for Brexit as “inconvenient and expensive”.

Bill Winters, the former co-chief executive officer of JPMorgan’s investment bank, told the BBC that the UK’s decision to leave the European Union would damage London and that it was already affecting the City’s talent pool.

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