The Financial Times has proclaimed Amsterdam to be the winner of Brexit.
Since the Brexit, a lot of stock trading has moved from London to Amsterdam, which is now the new major stock hub of Europe.
In january, the Amsterdam stock markets traded for 9.2 billion euros in stocks per day, where the London stock markets dropped to 8.6 billion euros.
Since the Brexit, the amount of stock trade in Amsterdam quadrupled. Per day, 6.5 billion euros worth of stock trades moved from the UK to the Netherlands.
This is because of the Brexit, which forbids brokers based in the UK from trading any stocks from European companies, at least for now.
The EU and UK are still negotiating on this matter. Stock analists however are already predicting that even when a deal is struck between the EU and the UK, the move of the financial sector to Amsterdam (and Paris) is most likely permanent.
Our country will profit greatly from this, for stock trades will need to pay tax in the Netherlands now.
Last year, the british government made 76 billion euros from taxing stock trade. A large part of that sum will no longer go to UK coffers, but to dutch coffers.
Next to the stock market, swap contract traders and the market for state obligations have also left London and moved to Amsterdam.
The US Intercontinental Exhange has also announced it will move it's trade for CO2 emission rights (good for trades worth 1 billion euros per day) to Amsterdam as well.
It's quite fitting though. Amsterdam has the oldest stock exchange in the world (built 1606)