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
Australian Financial Centre Forum former deputy chairman of Macquarie Bank and has 40 years of experience in financial services. A number of other bankers are on the board. Other panel members include: Australian Financial Centre Forum The Australian Financial Centre Forum is an Australian government advisory board that works with ASIC and the Treasury to promote the Australian financial sector, which directly employs more than 400,000 people in banking, insurance, foreign exchange, equities, commodities and funds management. The Forum was created in September 2008 by the Rudd Government. It is currently presided over by Mark Johnston, a former deputy chairman of Macquarie Bank. The