“…Van Meeteren and Bassens (2016) discussed the role of London's investment banks and related knowledge-intensive business services (KIBS) firms in the issuance of Eurobonds, while Beaverstock et al (2013) documented how private bankers based in London service the super-rich. Building on these insights, scholars discussed post-Brexit dynamics and scenarios for London's banking and financial center thereby addressing aspects of financial specialization and decreasing critical mass of financial functions (Dörry and Dymski, 2021;Heneghan and Hall, 2021;Lavery et al, 2018). However, there has been much less research on such specialized roles of European cities (for Luxembourg, see Dörry, 2016b;Majerus and Zenner, 2020;Walther et al, 2011; for Polish financial centers, see (Blažek et al, 2020), crossborder investment banking fees between 2000 and 2014 (Wójcik et al, 2018), and the 2019 GFCI banking subindex (Z/Yen, 2020).…”