The company is making its push into the mobile world with its Windows phones, attempting to challenge Apple and Google in the fast growing smartphone market, in an attempt to dip its toes in all pools.

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It is the financial world of which London will remain the epicentre only if it rises to the challenge of the single capital market.

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