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Fitch: Wall Street won't wait to make Brexit moves

US banks with large UK operations will start implementing contingency plans now rather than wait for exit terms, ratings agency says

JP Morgan HQ at Canary Wharf
JP Morgan HQ at Canary Wharf Photo: iStockPhoto

Wall Street's biggest investment banks will not waste time in reviewing their European businesses as capital markets issuance and M&A activity slow after the UK’s vote to leave the EU, according to analysts at credit rating agency Fitch.

Fitch, which on June 27 downgraded the UK's sovereign credit rating from AA+ to AA, said in a statement that the June 23 referendum vote to leave the EU would be "disruptive" and "costly" for US banks with big UK businesses.

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