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> The OP is right – at least according to Ernst and Young [1], who wrote in 2022 that:

> Since the UK’s EU referendum, 44% (97 out of 222) of the largest UK financial services firms have announced plans to move some UK operations and/or staff to the EU – a figure that nearly doubled between March 2017 (53 out of 222, 24%) and March 2021 (95 out of 222, 43%)

> In the last quarter [i.e. Q1 2022], the number of Brexit-related staff relocations to the EU has been further revised down, from 7,400 in December 2021 to just over 7,000 as March 2022 closes – significantly down from the peak of 12,500 announced in 2016

the number of people employed in UK FS is 2.2 million, so that's 0.3%

for comparison: last year 87,000 new UK jobs were added

structually most of these 2.2 million serve the UK domestic market and were never at risk of going to the EU