The fifth edition of the Smart Centres Index was published on 24 May 2022. SCI 5 rates the innovation and technology offerings of leading commercial centres, tracking their ability to create, develop, and deploy technology.The SCI is a factor assessment index, combining a number of instrumental...

The thirty-first edition of the Global Financial Centres Index (GFCI 31) was published on 24 March 2022. GFCI 31 provides evaluations of future competitiveness and rankings for 119 financial centres around the world. The GFCI serves as a valuable reference for policy and investment...

This paper reports the outcome of a series of interviews and focus group meetings with professionals working in post-trade processing and the provision of mutual distributed ledger services. The objective was to elicit and document views on three research hypotheses about the potential impact of...

The second edition of the Smart Centres Index (SCI 2) was published on 22 December 2020. SCI 2 rates the innovation and technology offerings of leading commercial and financial centres across the world.The SCI focuses on centres in relation to their approach to and delivery of innovation and...

The twenty-ninth edition of the Global Financial Centres Index (GFCI 29) was published on 17 March 2021. GFCI 29 provides evaluations of future competitiveness and rankings for 114 financial centres around the world. The GFCI serves as a valuable reference for policy and investment...

The seventh edition of the Global Green Finance Index (GGFI 7) was published on 29 April 2021. GGFI 7 provides evaluations of the depth and quality of the green finance offerings of 78 major financial centres around the world. The GGFI serves as a valuable reference into the development of green...

The third edition of the Smart Centres Index (SCI 3) was published on 16 June 2021. SCI 3 rates the innovation and technology offerings of leading commercial and financial centres across the world.The SCI focuses on centres in relation to their approach to and delivery of innovation and...

The Long Finance and London Accord community (over 48 financial institutions, thousands of people in finance and some 250 reports since 2005) has developed a simple, almost subversive, proposal for on climate change finance – index-linked carbon bonds. An indexlinked carbon bond is a...

Public sector entities devote a tremendous amount of time to avoiding risk, especially political risk. It feels far safer to spend a large number of small sums of money on ten different studies, rather than solve one problem for the same cost. If a political problem arises, then the response...

New regulatory initiatives, principally MiFID and RegNMS, challenge wholesale financial firms to prove that they can provide best execution for their clients. This article aims to outline the background to the problem and suggest that current research into SVM/DAPR applications may provide a...