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Global Financial Centres Index
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The GFCI - A Global Phenomenon
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Responses used in GFCI 19
Region NumberWesternEurope 816Asia/Pacific 529NorthAmerica 255MiddleEast&Africa 136N/A 63EasternEurope&CentralAsia 63LaDnAmerica&theCaribbean 48Total 1,910
Sector NumberBanking 572Finance 111Government&Regulatory 101Insurance 92Investment 301ProfessionalServices 368TradeAssociaDon 57Trading 69Other 239Total 1,910
SizeofOrganisa5on NumberFewerthan100 478100to500 260500to1,000 1711,000to2,000 1162,000to5,000 208Morethan5,000 677Total 1910
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Multi-Factor Financial Centres InstrumentalFactors R-Sq
IF01OfficeOccupancyCosts 0.5034BE16OECDCountryRiskClassificaDon 0.4966RF11PriceLevels 0.4934RF14InnovaDonCiDesGlobalIndex 0.4010RF12GlobalCiDesIndex 0.4008RF01WorldCompeDDvenessScoreboard 0.3971BE18FinancialSecrecyIndex 0.3795IF17LogisDcsPerformanceIndex 0.3766RF02GlobalCompeDDvenessIndex 0.3520RF22IESEciDesinmoDonindex 0.3289HC17CostofLivingCityRankings 0.3230BE01BusinessEnvironmentRankings 0.3180IF02OfficeSpaceAroundtheWorld 0.3111RF17GlobalEnablingTradeReport 0.3085BE14BankingIndustryCountryRiskAssessments 0.3005RF21CityIniDaDvesforTechnology,InnovaDonandEntrepreneurship 0.2877HC08TopTourismDesDnaDons 0.2524BE20CityGDPFigures 0.2459IF08QualityofRoads 0.2447RF05FDIConfidenceIndex 0.2402IF13MetroNetworkLength 0.2383RF13NumberofinternaDonalassociaDonmeeDngs 0.2343HC11GlobalTalentIndex 0.2317
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The GFCI Process
GFCI 19 uses 25,495 assessments from 2,520 respondents
GFCI 19 uses 105 Instrumental
Factors
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Headline findings (1)
City GFCI19Rank GFCI19Ra5ng GFCI18Rank GFCI18Ra5ng ChangeinRank ChangeinRa5ng
London 1 800 1 796 - ▲4NewYork 2 792 2 788 - ▲4Singapore 3 755 4 750 ▲1 ▲5HongKong 4 753 3 755 ▼1 ▼2Tokyo 5 728 5 725 - ▲3Zurich 6 714 7 715 ▲1 ▼1WashingtonDC 7 712 10 711 ▲3 ▲1SanFrancisco 8 711 9 712 ▲1 ▼1Boston 9 709 12 709 ▲3 -Toronto 10 707 8 714 ▼2 ▼7Chicago 11 706 11 710 - ▼4Seoul 12 705 6 724 ▼6 ▼19Dubai 13 699 16 704 ▲3 ▼5Luxembourg 14 698 19 700 ▲5 ▼2Geneva 15 694 13 707 ▼2 ▼13Shanghai 16 693 21 698 ▲5 ▼5Sydney 17 692 15 705 ▼2 ▼13Frankfurt 18 689 14 706 ▼4 ▼17Shenzhen 19 688 23 694 ▲4 ▼6Osaka 20 687 20 699 - ▼12
SaoPaulo 43 639 31 672 ▼12 ▼33RiodeJaneiro 44 637 35 666 ▼9 ▼29
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Headline Findings (2)
The mean of the top five centres by region. North America and Western Europe are now behind Asia/Pacific.
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New York, London, Singapore and Hong Kong remain the four leading global financial centres. Tokyo, in fifth place, is 25 points behind Hong Kong.
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Headline Findings (4) Asian seems to have been ‘flat-lining’ for the past three years. Singapore has climbed just ahead of Hong Kong. Seoul has fallen but remains in fourth place in the region.
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Headline Findings (5) Sao Paulo remains the top Latin American centre in GFCI 19. Where should Santiago be?
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Factors of Competitiveness
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Areas of Particular Concern in 2015/16
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What’s on People’s Minds
AreaofCompe55veness NumberofMen5ons MainIssues
BusinessEnvironment 936RegulaDonismoreimportantthaneverandneedstobeclearandfair
CorrupDonisevenmorehighprofilethanbefore
HumanCapital 831CentresbecomingmorecompeDDveinacracDngskilledpeopleDevelopingcentres-moreawarenessofa'braindrain'anddemographics
TaxaDon 796TaxrulesmustbeharmonisedinternaDonallyTaxshouldbetransparentandreasonable-andseentobereasonable
ReputaDon 714Security,safetyandhumanrightsarebecomingevenmoreimportant
Centresneedtomarketthemselves-amorecompeDDvemarketplace
Infrastructure 707Roadtransportisbecominganimportantissueinmanycentres
Lackofdirectflightsintocertaincentresholdsthemback
FinancialSectorDevelopment 609
MorefocusontheimportanceoftheEUclustertoLondonPhysicalproximitysDllveryimportant
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Financial Centre - Generalities
Ø You can’t be good at everything – specialise?
Ø You can’t be an international centre without international people
Ø Successful people want to live in successful cities
Ø People want to live in cosmopolitan places
Ø Reputation is vital – and you can lose a good one overnight
Ø Increase transparency wherever possible
Ø Continue to demonstrate commitment to meeting international standards
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Discussion and Questions
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