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UK beats US as world's top financial centre

Source: The independent
London : United Kingdom | about 1 month ago  
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London is now the world's leading financial centre, rankings published today by the influential World Economic Forum reveal, in a report that will surprise those who have warned the UK's financial services industry is under threat from international competition. The WEF's Financial Development...
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