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
International Financial Services Centre and the term International Financial Services ("IFS") sector is now sometimes used. The original 11 hectare IFSC site has gone through major expansions to become a 37.8 hectare site which is now a major European financial centre and situated within Dublin's central business district. It covers the office areas on the North Wall and East Wall (both north of the river Liffey), and the most recent Dublin City Council ("DCC") 2015 expansion includes the full North Lotts area (down to the Point Depot) and Grand Canal Basin (south of the Liffey) area which includes the Silicon Docks technology zone (home