They are both free ports with ambitions to become Asia's premier business and finance center after Japan.
Among cities outside the Muslim world, London is the strongest Islamic finance center.
"The International Finance Center is Hong Kong's premier IT address, " says Lane Leskela, research director for e-commerce intelligence services at Gartner Group (Asia Pacific).
The Kwoks' developments include Hong Kong's three tallest towers: Central Plaza, the International Finance Center and Hong Kong's tallest building, the 1, 588-foot (484-meter) International Commerce Center.
Shanghai plans to be an international finance center by 2020, and creating a board on the Shanghai Stock Exchange where foreign companies can list their shares is seen as an essential component.
Faced with the harsh reality of student debt, the NYPIRG and New York State Higher Education Services Corporation (HESC) came together to power the National College Finance Center and its national public service campaign.
Microseconds away (as the e-mail flies) is the International Finance Center, with an IT occupancy of 5% (that does not include a large number of banking and finance companies that work closely with the dotcoms).
The city is also a principal banking and finance center, and the home to more than 30 international financial institutions, helping to make San Francisco rank eighteenth in the world's top producing cities and fifteenth place in the top twenty global financial centers.
On his website, Inman thanked donors and said an event is planned this summer in Shoreham to help finance the science center.
Indeed, New York remains the center of finance, including finance for the technology startups that still largely reside in California.
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He founded the Johns Hopkins Center for Hospital Finance and Management.
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"In the current crisis, servicers who are not conflicted for a variety of reasons that the big bank servicers are have been more aggressive and more creative in their loan modifications, " said Julia Gordon, director of housing finance and policy at the Center for American Progress, a Washington, D.
Yet Tom Perriello, a former Democratic congressman from Virginia who was defeated in 2010 after a flood of outside conservative spending in his district, and who now focusses on campaign-finance issues at the liberal Center for American Progress, argues that the economic incentives for wealthy conservatives are far more obvious.
He even has a five-year contract with the Malaysian Central Bank run non-profit, International Center for Leadership in Finance, to train 210 IR managers per year on how to come up with a road map for the organization.
But corporate America isn't throwing its full weight behind the movement, according to data from the Federal Election Committee and the Center for Responsive Politics, a campaign finance watchdog.
The finance giant acquired the equipment to aid the King Center's digitization project and was "excited to provide this technology to enable families in the New York area to salvage family photos that would otherwise have been lost forever, " Chief Information Officer Guy Chiarello said in a statement.
And according to the Center for Responsive Politics, which tracks campaign finance information, the White House is traditionally the biggest government supplier of lobbyists.
Its political spending exceeded that of all other groups bar the two parties in the 2010 mid-terms, according to the Center for Responsive Politics, a campaign-finance watchdog.
But in spite of the big names that appear on candidates' contribution lists, the biggest contributors to the candidates are lawyers and investment professionals, according to the Center for Responsive Politics, which tracks campaign finance date.
With Europe's economic crisis dominating the backroom discussions, and often taking center stage in the cavernous Conference Center, captains of industry, titans of finance and top academics found themselves forced to grapple with unusual feelings of impotence.
He thinks it will become the third center, independent of both Anglo-Saxon and Chinese approaches to finance.
As a recent, excellent paper by my colleague at the Center for Security Policy, Alex Alexiev, points out, however, Shariah finance is a relatively contemporary innovation.
Under the shadow of a Gothic cathedral, Cracco's restaurant lies in the very center of Milan, at the intersection of the most significant relationships in Italian finance, culture and business, in a metaphorical but very concrete way.
But as often has been the case in finance, the back office gets very little attention since it is viewed as a dull cost center.
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October 1, 2012-The percentage of Americans who have mobile internet access has risen dramatically in the last year, a trend that is rapidly changing how people get news and the implications for how to finance it, according to a new, detailed survey of news use on mobile devices conducted by the Pew Research Center's Project for Excellence in Journalism (PEJ) in collaboration with The Economist Group.
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