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By Geraldine Amiel, Caroline Connan and Francois de Beaupuy

August 7, 2017 at 4:00 AM UTC

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Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire said Paris will beat Frankfurt to become the European Union’s main financial center after Britain leaves, even as he acknowledged that the French capital is playing catch-up.