The Financial Times and Nikkei have just published their inaugural Investing in America report, which looks at the best US cities for foreign multinationals to invest in and do business in.

To come up with this, they used about three dozen different metrics — everything from openness to quality of life. From what I can tell though, it doesn’t appear that climate risk factored much into this ranking. It should.

There’s a lot of Florida on this list and Miami comes out on top, largely because, last year, it had the most foreign direct investment per capita of any US city. It also has a well-connected airport, two of the largest shipping ports in the US, and an international population.

Lots of people and companies are going long Miami right now.

The 2015 edition of The Global Financial Centres Index (GFCI) was just released last month. It is often used as one of the sources for ranking financial centres.

The index – which is now in its 18th edition – is created using two main ingredients. The first is an analysis of 5 broad areas of competitiveness: 1) business environment, 2) financial sector development, 3) infrastructure, 4) human capital, and 5) reputational & general factors. And the second is an online survey given to financial services professionals. The 2015 edition includes responses from 3,194 professionals.

Below are the top 25 financial centres in the world according to the GFCI (the full list has 84 cities).

Here are a couple of things to note from this year’s index: 

London has overtaken New York for the top spot – but both remain more or less at parity if you dig into the numbers. 

Dublin is performing particularly well in Western Europe.

The leading centre in Eastern Europe is Warsaw (38th), with Istanbul just behind it.

Toronto is now second in North America, only to New York.

Sao Paulo remains the top Latin American centre.

And, Los Angeles (49th) and Liechtenstein (60th) join as new entrants this year.

If you’d like to see the full report and ranking, click here.

If you had to pick one, which city would you consider to be the “capital of the world?” There are no other instructions. Just select whatever first comes to mind. If for whatever reason you can’t see the poll below, click here.

If you’re curious about where the above list of cities came from, they’re simply all of the Alpha++, Alpha+ and Alpha cities according to the Globalization and World Cities Research Network (GaWC). The list may be a few years old though.

The Financial Times and Nikkei have just published their inaugural Investing in America report, which looks at the best US cities for foreign multinationals to invest in and do business in.

To come up with this, they used about three dozen different metrics — everything from openness to quality of life. From what I can tell though, it doesn’t appear that climate risk factored much into this ranking. It should.

There’s a lot of Florida on this list and Miami comes out on top, largely because, last year, it had the most foreign direct investment per capita of any US city. It also has a well-connected airport, two of the largest shipping ports in the US, and an international population.

Lots of people and companies are going long Miami right now.

The 2015 edition of The Global Financial Centres Index (GFCI) was just released last month. It is often used as one of the sources for ranking financial centres.

The index – which is now in its 18th edition – is created using two main ingredients. The first is an analysis of 5 broad areas of competitiveness: 1) business environment, 2) financial sector development, 3) infrastructure, 4) human capital, and 5) reputational & general factors. And the second is an online survey given to financial services professionals. The 2015 edition includes responses from 3,194 professionals.

Below are the top 25 financial centres in the world according to the GFCI (the full list has 84 cities).

Here are a couple of things to note from this year’s index: 

London has overtaken New York for the top spot – but both remain more or less at parity if you dig into the numbers. 

Dublin is performing particularly well in Western Europe.

The leading centre in Eastern Europe is Warsaw (38th), with Istanbul just behind it.

Toronto is now second in North America, only to New York.

Sao Paulo remains the top Latin American centre.

And, Los Angeles (49th) and Liechtenstein (60th) join as new entrants this year.

If you’d like to see the full report and ranking, click here.

If you had to pick one, which city would you consider to be the “capital of the world?” There are no other instructions. Just select whatever first comes to mind. If for whatever reason you can’t see the poll below, click here.

If you’re curious about where the above list of cities came from, they’re simply all of the Alpha++, Alpha+ and Alpha cities according to the Globalization and World Cities Research Network (GaWC). The list may be a few years old though.