City of London Since 1991 Canary Wharf, a few miles east of the City in Tower Hamlets, has become another centre for London's financial services industry which houses many banks and other institutions formerly located in the Square Mile. Although growth has continued in both locations, and there have been relocations in both directions, the Corporation has come to realise that its planning policies may have been causing financial firms to choose Canary Wharf as a location. Many major global companies have their headquarters in the City, including Aviva, BT Group, Lloyds Banking Group, Old Mutual, Prudential, Schroders, Standard Chartered, and Unilever. A
Monument Square, London Monument Square, London Monument Square is a public square in the City of London, England, next to the Monument (the Monument to the Great Fire of London). It is to be created as part of Monument Street is pedestrianised. It also features a glass pavilion which was designed by Bere Architects and unveiled on 31 January 2007. In the past, there already was the Monument Square around the Monument, formerly known as the "'Monument Yard". Later it was merged into the Monument Street. "A Dictionary of London" by Henry A Harben (1918) describes it as follows: Monument Square On the