London and New York have maintained their dominance as the world's leading international finance centres, despite scoring lower than in 2010.
Sectors
More- Aerospace
- Alternative/Renewable energy
- Automotive
- Automotive Components
- Automotive OEM
- Beverages
- Biotechnology
- BPO
- Building & Construction Materials
- Building and construction materials
- Business Machines & Equipment
- Business Services
- Ceramics & Glass
- Ceramics and glass
- Chemicals
- Coal, Oil & Natural Gas
- Communications
- Consumer Electronics
- Consumer Products
- Electronic Components
- Engines & Turbines
- Financial Services
- Fintech
- Food & Tobacco
- Forestry
- Healthcare
- Hotels & Tourism
- Industrial Machinery, Equipment & Tools
- Industrial machinery, equipment and tools
- Infrastructure
- Leisure & Entertainment
- Leisure and entertainment
- Medical Devices
- Metals
- Minerals
- Non-Automotive Transport OEM
- Paper, Printing & Packaging
- Paper, printing and packaging
- Pharmaceuticals
- Plastics
- Real Estate
- Rubber
- Semiconductors
- Software & IT Services
- Space & Defence
- Technology
- Textiles
- Transportation
- Warehousing & Storage
- Wood Products
NY and London retain supremacy as top international finance centres
Software and IT overtakes financial services as leading FDI sector for projects in 2010
The software and IT sector saw increased FDI in 2010, pulling ahead of financial services as the leading sector for FDI projects in 2010.
Switzerland's insurance claim
As Switzerland opens up its insurance and reinsurance markets, more and more global players in the sector are locating in the country, causing murmurs of concern in traditional European hotspot London
EU directive causes uncertainty for foreign investors
The EU has finalised a new directive regulating private equity and hedge funds. But how it differentiates between EU and non-EU managers could have serious implications reports Polly Botsford
Unabashed: African finance ministers chart course to growth
Courtney Fingar interviews the finance ministers of Cape Verde, Rwanda and Senegal at the IMF-World Bank annual meetings. Read the round-up
View from the C-suite: Antony Jenkins, head of Barclays Retail
Barclays sees great long-term opportunities in banking in Africa, where some countries are enjoying strong economic growth, the CEO of its retail division tells Peter Guest. Nigeria is the most obvious location for the bank to make significant investment, but there are openings in many parts of the continent
JPMorgan to recruit 100 engineers for Scots centre
JPMorgan is expanding its Glasgow-based European Technology Centre (ETC) by creating 100 new jobs.
Services: the new frontier
Today, some 60% of the world FDI stock is in the services sector, in both developed and developing countries. The share of this sector in FDI flows is slightly higher. This is not surprising, as it reflects the sectoral structure of home and host countries: in developed countries, the services sector accounts for about two-thirds of GDP, in developing ones for more than half.
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