financial centers
Where banks cluster
Financial centers are cities or districts where banking, investment, and other monetary services concentrate.
New York, London, Hong Kong, and Singapore rank among the world's major financial centers.
The term implies a critical mass of banks, stock exchanges, and related institutions: The company moved its headquarters to be closer to financial centers.
- Hong KongChinese special administrative region
- clearinghousesInstitutions settling mutual claims
- LondonEngland's capital city
- DubaiPersian Gulf emirate
- tax havenZero-rate wealth jurisdiction
stock exchanges · Frankfurt · trading · Zurich · Swiss accounts · Singapore · New York City · SWIFT · Shanghai · banks · bourses · Wall Street · trading floor · capital markets · investment banking · offshore banking · money laundering · Bretton Woods system
- global financeinternational banking, financial hubs, capital flows, exchange rates, foreign exchange
- economic regionseconomic zones, industrial zones, trade zones, rust belt, corn belt
- regional industriesforestry, lumber, dairy farming, Napa wine, fishing
- bankingbank, banks, ATM, ATMs, account
- city groupssister cities, twin towns, metropolitan area, megacity, capital cities
financial centersrural economies
Non-urban financial systems
farming communities · hinterlands · backwaters · rural areas · remote villages
financial centersdeveloping nations
Countries with lower economic output
failed states · marginalized communities · slums · shanty towns
financial centersmining towns
Settlements near extraction sites
factory towns · manufacturing hubs · fishing villages · mill towns · industrial centers