The Global Financial Centres Index ( GFCI) ranks the competitiveness of based on over 29,000 assessments from an online questionnaire and over 100 indices from organisations such as the World Bank, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), and the Economist Intelligence Unit. It was first published in March 2007. It has been jointly published twice per year by the London-based think tank Z/Yen and the China Development Institute since 2015. It is widely quoted as a top source for ranking financial centres.
GFCI 38 (September 2025)
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Financial centre profiles (GFCI 36, September 2024)
The report ranks international financial centres into the following matrix:
+ Financial Centre Profiles (GFCI 36, September 2024) |
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Global | [[London]]
New York
Washington, D.C.
[[Paris]]
[[Los Angeles]]
[[Tokyo]]
[[Zurich]]
[[Amsterdam]]
[[Dublin]]
[[Frankfurt]]
| align=center | [[Singapore]]
[[Seoul]]
[[Kuala Lumpur]]
[[Brussels]]
| align=center | [[Dubai]]
[[Abu Dhabi]]
[[Casablanca]]
[[Mauritius]]
[[Hong Kong]]
[[Luxembourg]]
| align=center | [[Beijing]]
[[Istanbul]]
[[Shanghai]]
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International | Boston
[[Chicago]]
[[Busan]]
[[Edinburgh]]
[[Berlin]]
[[Rome]]
[[Milan]]
[[Geneva]]
[[Montreal]]
[[Toronto]]
[[Munich]]
[[Sydney]]
[[Osaka]]
[[Hamburg]]
[[Melbourne]]
[[Miami]]
[[Vancouver]]
[[Stuttgart]]
| align=center | [[Bangkok]]
[[Vienna]]
[[Madrid]]
[[Stockholm]]
[[San Francisco]]
[[Athens]]
[[Copenhagen]]
| align=center | [[Mumbai]]
[[GIFT City]]
[[Riyadh]]
[[Bermuda]]
[[Qingdao]]
[[Shenzhen]]
[[Tel Aviv]]
[[Astana]]
[[Jersey]]
| align=center | [[Moscow]]
[[Mexico City]]
[[Panama]]
[[Bahamas]]
[[Nairobi]]
[[Bahrain]]
[[Jakarta]]
[[Doha]]
[[Lagos]]
[[New Delhi]]
[[Johannesburg]]
[[Cape Town]]
[[Guangzhou]]
São Paulo
[[Kigali]]
British Virgin Islands
[[Cayman Islands]]
[[Taipei]]
[[Liechtenstein]]
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Local | [[Oslo]]
[[San Diego]]
[[Glasgow]]
[[Calgary]]
Minneapolis/St Paul
[[Wellington]]
| align=center | [[Santiago]]
[[Lisbon]]
[[Warsaw]]
[[Prague]]
[[Atlanta]]
[[Helsinki]]
| align=center | Rio de Janeiro
[[Tallinn]]
[[Malta]]
Ho Chi Minh City
[[Chengdu]]
[[Lugano]]
Xi'an
[[Hangzhou]]
[[Wuhan]]
[[Tianjin]]
Reykjavík
[[Monaco]]
[[Nanjing]]
[[Gibraltar]]
[[Dalian]]
| align=center | [[Baku]]
[[Manila]]
[[Buenos Aires]]
[[Sofia]]
[[Riga]]
[[Cyprus]]
[[Saint Petersburg]]
[[Budapest]]
[[Tehran]]
Bogotá
[[Guernsey]]
[[Bratislava]]
[[Vilnius]]
[[Almaty]]
Trinidad and Tobago
[[Barbados]]
Isle of Man
[[Kuwait City]]
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