{"id":12085,"date":"2011-09-26T14:47:28","date_gmt":"2011-09-26T13:47:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=12085"},"modified":"2011-09-26T14:47:28","modified_gmt":"2011-09-26T13:47:28","slug":"this-is-one-view-of-the-worlds-top-financial-centres-but-a-better-one-is-coming-soon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2011\/09\/26\/this-is-one-view-of-the-worlds-top-financial-centres-but-a-better-one-is-coming-soon\/","title":{"rendered":"This is one view of the world&#8217;s top financial centres &#8211; but a better one is coming soon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today the Z\/Yen Group publishesdthe tenth Global Financial Centres Index (GFCI 10) covering 75 financial centres. The\u00a0GFCI Top 10 were:<\/p>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>Centre<\/td>\n<td>GFCI 10 Rank<\/td>\n<td>GFCI 10 Rating<\/td>\n<td>GFCI 9 Rank<\/td>\n<td>GFCI 9 Rating<\/td>\n<td>Change in Rank<\/td>\n<td>Change in Rating<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>London<\/td>\n<td>1<\/td>\n<td>774<\/td>\n<td>1<\/td>\n<td>775<\/td>\n<td>0<\/td>\n<td>-1<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>New York<\/td>\n<td>2<\/td>\n<td>773<\/td>\n<td>2<\/td>\n<td>769<\/td>\n<td>0<\/td>\n<td>4<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Hong Kong<\/td>\n<td>3<\/td>\n<td>770<\/td>\n<td>3<\/td>\n<td>759<\/td>\n<td>0<\/td>\n<td>11<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Singapore<\/td>\n<td>4<\/td>\n<td>735<\/td>\n<td>4<\/td>\n<td>722<\/td>\n<td>0<\/td>\n<td>13<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Shanghai<\/td>\n<td>5<\/td>\n<td>724<\/td>\n<td>5<\/td>\n<td>694<\/td>\n<td>0<\/td>\n<td>30<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Tokyo<\/td>\n<td>6<\/td>\n<td>695<\/td>\n<td>5<\/td>\n<td>694<\/td>\n<td>-1<\/td>\n<td>1<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Chicago<\/td>\n<td>7<\/td>\n<td>692<\/td>\n<td>7<\/td>\n<td>673<\/td>\n<td>0<\/td>\n<td>19<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Zurich<\/td>\n<td>8<\/td>\n<td>686<\/td>\n<td>8<\/td>\n<td>665<\/td>\n<td>0<\/td>\n<td>21<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>San Francisco<\/td>\n<td>9<\/td>\n<td>681<\/td>\n<td>13<\/td>\n<td>655<\/td>\n<td>4<\/td>\n<td>26<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Toronto<\/td>\n<td>10<\/td>\n<td>680<\/td>\n<td>10<\/td>\n<td>658<\/td>\n<td>0<\/td>\n<td>22<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>GFCI 10 uses 28,604 financial centre assessments completed by 1,887 financial services professionals.<\/p>\n<p>Interesting stuff.<\/p>\n<p>But next week the new Financial Secrecy Index from the\u00a0Tax Justice Network is out and that will be much more telling.<\/p>\n<p>Look for the overlaps I suggest!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today the Z\/Yen Group publishesdthe tenth Global Financial Centres Index (GFCI 10) covering 75 financial centres. The\u00a0GFCI Top 10 were: Centre GFCI 10 Rank GFCI<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2011\/09\/26\/this-is-one-view-of-the-worlds-top-financial-centres-but-a-better-one-is-coming-soon\/\"><em> Read the full article&#8230;<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[113,11,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12085","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-financial-secrecy-index","category-tax-justice-network","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12085","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12085"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12085\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}