London on the meridian...
... makes not the slightest difference.
The obvious answer to your question is Switzerland, specifically Geneva and Zurich.
That's a very real, obvious threat. Well developed, big finance centre already, low crime, low tax, good flights to everywhere.
And would they? Well to some extent many have effectively. When banks were making redundancies in their global teams, they hacked hardest where taxes dictated. The point is that when they next hire, we'd like some of it to be here...
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prince-igor si tacuisses, philosophus mansisses, Tue 22 Jun 2010, 14:28,
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