International Financial Centres Development Index
In 2011, the Xinhua News Agency of China, partnering with the Chicago Mercantile Exchange and Dow Jones & Company of the United States, released the Xinhua-Dow Jones International Financial Centers Development Index. In 2012, the index was updated. According to this index, the top ten financial centers in the world are:
| Rank | Centre | Rating |
| 1 | New York City | 87.27 |
| 2 | London | 85.62 |
| 3 | Tokyo | 72.93 |
| 4 | Hong Kong | 72.18 |
| 5 | Singapore | 64.11 |
| 6 | Shanghai | 63.80 |
| 7 | Frankfurt | 62.61 |
| 8 | Paris | 60.65 |
| 9 | Zurich | 55.32 |
| 10 | Chicago | 51.30 |
Read more about this topic: Financial Centre
Famous quotes containing the words financial, centres, development and/or index:
“America is a nation with no truly national city, no Paris, no Rome, no London, no city which is at once the social center, the political capital, and the financial hub.”
—C. Wright Mills (1916–1962)
“We all have—to put it as nicely as I can—our lower centres and our higher centres. Our lower centres act: they act with terrible power that sometimes destroys us; but they don’t talk.... Since the war the lower centres have become vocal. And the effect is that of an earthquake. For they speak truths that have never been spoken before—truths that the makers of our domestic institutions have tried to ignore.”
—George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)
“Dissonance between family and school, therefore, is not only inevitable in a changing society; it also helps to make children more malleable and responsive to a changing world. By the same token, one could say that absolute homogeneity between family and school would reflect a static, authoritarian society and discourage creative, adaptive development in children.”
—Sara Lawrence Lightfoot (20th century)
“Exile as a mode of genius no longer exists; in place of Joyce we have the fragments of work appearing in Index on Censorship.”
—Nadine Gordimer (b. 1923)