Around 25 of the City's largest firms will be meeting with a delegation of senior Danish financial executives in London today to discuss setting up a European hub in Copenhagen ahead of the UK's exit from the European Union.

A group of six senior Danish finance chiefs, including Allan Polack, the chief executive of the €83bn pension fund PFA, and Christian Hyldahl, the chief executive of €100bn pension fund ATP, are in London alongside the country's minister for industry, business and financial affairs Brian Mikkelsen.