Financial centre of the 19th century. After 1870, Berlin and New York grew to become major financial centres mainly serving their national economies. An array of smaller international financial centers found market niches, such as Amsterdam, Brussels, Zurich, and Geneva. London remained the leading international financial center in the four decades leading up to World War I. Since then, London and New York have developed leading positions in different activities and some non-Western financial centres have grown in prominence, notably Tokyo, Hong Kong and Singapore. In Asia, Tokyo emerged as a major financial centre in the 1980s as the Japanese economy became
Ocean Financial Centre of the building. Ocean Financial Centre The Ocean Financial Centre is an office building in Singapore. It is built on the site of the former Ocean Building, which has been demolished. The new building retained the name and many of the tenants of the former office block, and will serve primarily as a home to financial corporations. The building features a large solar array and is located next to Raffles Place MRT Station. On October 17, 2011, K-REIT Asia acquired the building from Keppel Land for more than S$2 billion. Ocean Financial Centre houses the Honorary Consulate of Cyprus on