ZYen:Global Financial Centres Index

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Overview

After a year of trials, in 2006 the City of London Corporation and Z/Yen Group launched a ranking for financial centres, the Global Financial Centres Index (GFCI). The GFCI is an ‘index of indices’, based on a number of existing rankings, in combination with a regular survey of senior industry figures. Published every six months, the GFCI is dynamic, tracking the changing perceptions of cities as financial centres on an ongoing basis.

Method

The GFCI provides ratings for financial centres calculated by a ‘factor assessment model’ that uses two distinct sets of input:

1. Instrumental factors (external indices that contribute to competitiveness): Previous research indicates that there are many factors that combine to make a financial centre competitive. These can be grouped into five overarching areas of competitiveness – People, Business Environment, Market Access, Infrastructure and General Competitiveness. Objective evidence of competitiveness was sought from a wide variety of comparable sources. For example, evidence about the infrastructure competitiveness of a financial centre is drawn from a survey of property and an index of occupancy costs. Evidence about a fair and just business environment is drawn from a corruption perception index and an opacity index. A total of 64 external sources were used in GFCI 6. Not all financial centres are represented in all the external sources, and the statistical model takes account of these gaps.

2. Financial centre assessments: By means of an online questionnaire, running continuously since 2007, we now have 36,497 financial centre assessments drawn from 1,802 respondents. Respondents assess the competitiveness of financial centres that they know. The online questionnaire is ongoing to keep the GFCI up-to-date with people’s changing assessments.

Key areas

The people index summarises the availability of a skilled workforce, the flexibility of the labour market, the quality of the business education and the skillset of the workforce. The business environment aggregates and values the regulation, tax rates, levels of corruption, economic freedom and how difficult in general it is to do business. To measure regulation an online questionnaire has been used. The market access index looks at the various equities and bonds available. The volume and value of trading but also the cluster effect of the number of different financial service companies at the location influence the index. The infrastructure index furthermost accounts to the price of real estate at the location. Other factors such as public transport have a minor impact. General competitiveness relies on more traditional economic factors as price level, quality of life and economic sentiment.

Industry sectors

The ranking does sub rankings in the main area of financial services as banking, asset management, insurance, professional services, government and regulation.

Results

The results of the latest GFCI can be found on the Financial Centre Futures homepage of the Long Finance website.

Centres

Below is a list of all the financial centres ranked in the Global Financial Centres Index.

Centre
FinancialCentreFutures:London
FinancialCentreFutures:New York
FinancialCentreFutures:Hong Kong
FinancialCentreFutures:Singapore
FinancialCentreFutures:Tokyo
FinancialCentreFutures:Chicago
FinancialCentreFutures:Zurich
FinancialCentreFutures:Geneva
FinancialCentreFutures:Shenzhen
FinancialCentreFutures:Sydney
FinancialCentreFutures:Shanghai
FinancialCentreFutures:Toronto
FinancialCentreFutures:Frankfurt
FinancialCentreFutures:Boston
FinancialCentreFutures:Beijing
FinancialCentreFutures:San Francisco
FinancialCentreFutures:Washington D.C
FinancialCentreFutures:Jersey
FinancialCentreFutures:Luxembourg
FinancialCentreFutures:Paris
FinancialCentreFutures:Taipei
FinancialCentreFutures:Guernsey
FinancialCentreFutures:Vancouver
FinancialCentreFutures:Isle of Man
FinancialCentreFutures:Dubai
FinancialCentreFutures:Montreal
FinancialCentreFutures:Melbourne
FinancialCentreFutures:Seoul
FinancialCentreFutures:Edinburgh
FinancialCentreFutures:Cayman Islands
FinancialCentreFutures:Dublin
FinancialCentreFutures:Hamilton
FinancialCentreFutures:Munich
FinancialCentreFutures:Osaka
FinancialCentreFutures:Amsterdam
FinancialCentreFutures:Qatar
FinancialCentreFutures:British Virgin Islands
FinancialCentreFutures:Stockholm
FinancialCentreFutures:Brussels
FinancialCentreFutures:Sao Paulo
FinancialCentreFutures:Copenhagen
FinancialCentreFutures:Bahrain
FinancialCentreFutures:Vienna
FinancialCentreFutures:Wellington
FinancialCentreFutures:Madrid
FinancialCentreFutures:Oslo
FinancialCentreFutures:Milan
FinancialCentreFutures:Monaco
FinancialCentreFutures:Rome
FinancialCentreFutures:Helsinki
FinancialCentreFutures:Kuala Lumpur
FinancialCentreFutures:Glasgow
FinancialCentreFutures:Gibraltar
FinancialCentreFutures:Johannesburg
FinancialCentreFutures:Rio de Janeiro
FinancialCentreFutures:Malta
FinancialCentreFutures:Mexico City
FinancialCentreFutures:Mumbai
FinancialCentreFutures:Bahamas
FinancialCentreFutures:Mauritius
FinancialCentreFutures:Bangkok
FinancialCentreFutures:Prague
FinancialCentreFutures:Jakarta
FinancialCentreFutures:Buenos Aires
FinancialCentreFutures:Lisbon
FinancialCentreFutures:Manila
FinancialCentreFutures:Warsaw
FinancialCentreFutures:Moscow
FinancialCentreFutures:Riyadh
FinancialCentreFutures:St. Petersburg
FinancialCentreFutures:Tallinn
FinancialCentreFutures:Budapest
FinancialCentreFutures:Athens
FinancialCentreFutures:Istanbul
FinancialCentreFutures:Reykjavik
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