City of London London borough, a status reserved for the other 32 districts (including London's only other city, the City of Westminster). It is also a separate county of England, being an enclave surrounded by Greater London. It is the smallest county in the United Kingdom. The City of London is widely referred to simply as the City (differentiated from the phrase "the city of London" by capitalising "City") and is also colloquially known as the Square Mile, as it is in area. Both of these terms are also often used as metonyms for the United Kingdom's trading and financial services industries, which
The City: London and the Global Power of Finance The City: London and the Global Power of Finance The City: London and the Global Power of Finance is a 2016 book by British economist and former trader Tony Norfield, published by Verso Books. "The City" is an insider's account of the how the City, as London's financial centre is known, dominates international banking and foreign exchange and shapes global capital. Norfield spent twenty years as a senior trader in the financial district. He uses the inside knowledge to investigate the "role of the US dollar in global trading, the network of British-linked tax havens, the flows of finance around