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Is London's Financial Powerhouse at Risk?

Jill Rutter, senior fellow at U.K. in a Changing Europe, discusses fears that London's finance powerhouse will gradually be dismantled as Britain enters the last month of the Brexit transition period without a financial-services deal in sight
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