Shanghai: moving up a league? - Financial Times (blog)


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Shanghai: moving up a league?
Financial Times (blog)
How important a financial centre is can be wonderfully subjective. Ask a banker on Wall Street, Cabot Square or Queen's Road and you are bound to get a different answer. But luckily, the Global Financial Centres Index, provided by Z/Yen Group, ...
Highlights - Key points from Shanghai's global yuan hub plan Reuters
Shanghai aims to become global RMB product center by 2015 BusinessGhana

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City of London's long term prosperity dependent on maintaining a multicultural ... - Business Intelligence Middle East (press release)


Business Intelligence Middle East (press release)
City of London's long term prosperity dependent on maintaining a multicultural ...
Business Intelligence Middle East (press release)
This report is the result of a scenario planning exercise conducted by internationally recognised futurists and key figures from the global financial services industry. It plots a series of possible future scenarios for the global financial services ...

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Bankers Outline Priorities For Swiss Financial Centre - Tax-news.com

Bankers Outline Priorities For Swiss Financial Centre
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Referring to the “Global Financial Centres Index”, published twice a year, Gloor noted that the financial centres of Zurich and Geneva were ranked sixth and ninth in the world respectively in September 2009, whereas two years later, they had been ...

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Global Real Estate Markets Making Steady Progress with Eighth Consecutive ... - MarketWatch (press release)

Global Real Estate Markets Making Steady Progress with Eighth Consecutive ...
MarketWatch (press release)
"While leasing markets in the major financial centres are softening, the limited supply pipeline should ensure that they do not move significantly out of balance." Jones Lang LaSalle's Global Office Index tracks the rental performance of prime office ...

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Global Briefing | Behind the Flurry of Store Openings in Australia - The Business of Fashion


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Global Briefing | Behind the Flurry of Store Openings in Australia
The Business of Fashion
On a macro-economic level, Australia is the only advanced economy that did not enter a deep recession during the global financial crisis. The country's economy did slow in 2008 and 2009, but recovered quickly thanks to government action in the form of ...

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Unsafe haven? New IFC tax haven policy questioned - Bretton Woods Update

Unsafe haven? New IFC tax haven policy questioned
Bretton Woods Update
It aims at “advancing the international tax transparency agenda by addressing the potential risks posed to its private sector operations and to the global financial system by jurisdictions with weak regulation, low or no tax, and a lack of transparency ...

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Reasons Why Hong Kong is the Easiest Country to Do Business - NASDAQ

Reasons Why Hong Kong is the Easiest Country to Do Business
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American think tank Heritage Foundation released last week the 2012 Index of Economic Freedom with Hong Kong on top of the list. The report is a measure of economic freedom or the ease of doing business in 179 countries based on a 10-point criteria.

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