Merrill Lynch and Lehman Brothers had collections in the World Financial Centre, but these escaped unscathed.
Each of these countries is trying to promote itself as a regional financial centre.
Some people feared that London's predominance as a world financial centre could be put at risk.
The bill aimed to shake up the system of regulation in London's financial centre.
But a large offshore financial centre will typically have 80-120 corporate smithies, the World Bank reckons.
Russian President Vladimir Putin is keen to turn Moscow into a major international financial centre.
These customers, he says, want investment firms that can operate in every financial centre.
Edinburgh has faltered as a financial centre since, and would be hard to revive.
The helicopter buzzing back and forth across the skyline represents the financial centre's more yuan-denominated future.
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Ms Mayhew stakes its viability as a financial centre on the outcome of the Heron inquiry.
He prefers Eni's offices in Milan, Italy's financial centre, to its headquarters in Rome, the political capital.
In other words, maintaining the City as the world leading financial centre is not their main priority.
The Four Seasons, opened in October 2005, has a fantastic harbor-front location in the International Financial Centre.
Tower Hamlets is home to London's second financial centre, Canary Wharf, which paid for half the council's bid.
This in turn creates a fertile environment for innovation to flourish a vital attraction for a global financial centre.
The 14-storey property, sheathed in French limestone, is connected via walkway to the busy Dubai International Financial Centre.
New York worries that extra security measures since 2001 are making it less competitive as a financial centre.
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As forex has declined, so other products have taken its place, keeping London as the leading international financial centre.
Chancellor George Osborne opposed the move, fearing it could damage London's financial centre.
But he argues that the cost of this insurance will make London less competitive as a global financial centre.
Britain's highish ratio reflects the City's longstanding role as an international financial centre.
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The Cayman Islands is a major financial centre and a global tax haven.
Geoff Cook, chief executive of Jersey Finance Limited, said it was encouraging Jersey had remained the top offshore financial centre.
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But in the 1990s, mergers, acquisitions and deregulation have enabled Leeds to surpass Manchester as northern England's top financial centre.
But even if Saadiyat succeeds in a commercial sense, that will not make it a regional let alone a global financial centre.
Financial-sector lobby groups have been quick to criticise the payroll tax as damaging to Britain's attractiveness as a financial centre.
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Edinburgh's fund management industry, which includes companies such as Scottish Widows and Standard Life, still makes it a financial centre.
Foreign banks took advantage of the opening up of stockbroking to outsiders to establish a presence in London's fast-growing financial centre.
Analysts say Hong Kong authorities are trying to clamp down on money-laundering - seen as a growing problem in the financial centre.
Correspondents say that the carcasses are embarrassing for the city's authorities, who want Shanghai to be seen as an international financial centre.
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