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
Smart Financial Centre Smart Financial Centre The Smart Financial Centre at Sugar Land is a concert hall located off U.S. Highway 59 in Sugar Land, Texas, southwest of Houston. It is owned by the City of Sugar Land and is the only indoor live performance venue of its kind in the Greater Houston area. Groundbreaking began on the theater on December 9, 2014. In February 2015, naming rights were granted to Smart Financial Credit Union by the Sugar Land City Council. The theater opened on January 14, 2017 with back to back Jerry Seinfeld shows. The theater is designed to host a wide