Copyright 2018 NPR. To see more, visit RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: This next story is about fear and opportunity - fear that Brexit could damage one of the world's top banking centers - we're talking about London - while handing opportunities to rival cities in Europe. As NPR's Frank Langfitt reports, in the era of Brexit, London's loss is Europe's gain. FRANK LANGFITT, BYLINE: I'm here in Leadenhall Market. It's a covered market in London, with vaulted roofs and cobblestone streets, in what's basically an area that's kind of the Wall Street of Great Britain. Now within a few miles from here, there are 250 foreign banks and about 750,000 finance jobs. Brexit's putting some of those jobs at risk. And that's because after the U.K. leaves the EU, officials there say the United Kingdom just isn't going to have access to the vast European financial market. And European countries, even small ones like Luxembourg, well, they're already benefiting. I'm meeting a guy named Nicolas Mackel here. He's in
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