"The City, as Londons financial centre is known, is the world's biggest international banking and foreign exchange … mechanism of power in the world economy. Based on the author's twenty years' experience of City dealing rooms, The City is an in …-depth look at world markets and revenues that exposes how this mechanism works. All big international companies--not just the …

. For this culture to emerge, and for banks and other institutions from all over the world to locate in this place, several … behind the rise and fall of markets are poorly understood. Given the present dramatic changes in the world financial system …