Philip Lane, Governor of the Central Bank of Ireland speaks at a Reuters Newsmaker event in London, Britain October 28, 2016. REUTERS/Toby Melville -

LONDON (Reuters) - The head of the Irish central bank said on Tuesday that there will not be a “new London” in the European Union after Britain votes to leave the bloc.

Philip Lane, who is also a member of the European Central Bank’s Governing Council, said Europe’s future financial centres may be more fragmented geographically, even if they were integrated as part of a single market.

Cities around Europe are already vying for the potential new business, including financial centres in Germany, France, the Netherlands, Luxembourg and Ireland.

“There is not going to be any new London in the EU 27. History happened in a certain way. You can’t just lift institutions and drop then somewhere else,” Lane said at an event hosted by the London Irish business society in London.

“You may well have this fragmented but integrated financial system so location X has a cluster of derivatives trading, location Z has a cluster of insurance etc.”