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Our global offer to business
Date created: 12/02/2025This is the fifth edition of the City Corporation’s international competitiveness study, which shows that London remains the top global financial centre
Tech Small and Medium Enterprise Landscape Report
Date created: 7/01/2025This report highlights the key trends, growth sectors and clustering of tech SMEs in the Square Mile 2019-Q3 2024.
Exporting financial services to the world
Date created: 19/12/2024The UK remained the largest net exporter of financial services globally in 2023, find out more about the UK's financial services sector.
City statistics briefing
Date created: 11/11/2024The City of London's role as a global business hub for financial and professional services. It provides facts and figures about employment and firms.
Expanding into the UK
Date created: 22/10/2024This guide is intended to help non-UK firms understand the UK financial services regime and gives practical guidance about how they can do business in the UK
Scaling Transition Finance
Date created: 18/10/2024This report sets out Transition Finance Market Review's recommendations on how to scale a high-integrity transition finance market.
The UK - A Centre of Excellence in Impact Investing
Date created: 18/10/2024This report assesses the UK against five criteria of a Centre of Excellence in impact investing.
Catalysing UK economic growth
Date created: 19/09/2024Our new report shows supporting the establishment of UK offices by sovereign investors could bring in up to £7.7bn by 2030 across UK to drive jobs and growth.
UK RegTech Success Stories
Date created: 20/08/2024The report showcases the benefits of RegTech by presenting successful examples of implementation in UK firms to cut compliance costs and increase efficiency.