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
Independent Financial Centre of the Americas could potentially transform the financial condition of Latin America and its position in the Global economy. The Centre is the result of three years research by a group of Dominican and Latin American investors into other financial centres and extracts the best practices from around the world. It benefits from beginning with a clean slate - a new legal framework and an independent regulatory structure will be served by state-of-the-art information architecture. It will operate from a USD S850 million purpose-built business facility on a 17 square kilometer greenfield site, bordering the Caribbean coast. The site is midway between Santo