The Worlds Leading Financial Centers

[Brown, Jon Brow]

The UK has been named the world's best financial centre, knocking the USA off top spot, but it is also considered one of the most unstable.

The UK has the most developed financial system in the world, according to an an influential report from the World Economic Forum.

This is in reply to Eki's thread on prosperity. The UK wasn't ranked first on any of the 'prosperity' indicators. But by typing into Google 'UK ranked 1st in...' I found out that the UK, like Finland, is good at something.


http://www.thisismoney.co.uk/news/ar...&in_page_id=2#

So lets give our bankers a big pat on the back!

[Brown, Jon Brow]

Nobody is buying my attempt at being Eki?

[DexDexter]

I think the UK is best at doing quality TV. How do you guys do it? I'm talking about series like Life on Mars or Wire in Blood, historical dramas, sport, documentaries, even morning tv etc. They're just so much better than anything I've seen anywhere else.

[Brown, Jon Brow]

We're not bad at F1 too

[DexDexter]

We're not bad at F1 too

I forgot about it already, Button that is . Not too bad, yep.

[Tomi]

I think the UK is best at doing quality TV. How do you guys do it? I'm talking about series like Life on Mars or Wire in Blood, historical dramas, sport, documentaries, even morning tv etc. They're just so much better than anything I've seen anywhere else.

Agree, nothing beats Brittsh quality tv, they just started Morse again here on tv. You should be proud Brittons, also its nice to see the high quality of Brittsh actors and actresses, more please.

[GridGirl]

I was reading Accountancy Age from a couple of weeks ago at lunchtime and there was an interesting article about how the UK is becoming increasingly popular financially as a place for companies restructure debt or go bankrupt. We should be so proud.

[Malbec]

I think the UK is best at doing quality TV. How do you guys do it? I'm talking about series like Life on Mars or Wire in Blood, historical dramas, sport, documentaries, even morning tv etc. They're just so much better than anything I've seen anywhere else.

Its the BBC, it trains loads of graduates to a very high standard who then leave and work for other companies, it means there's a high quality supply of staff that private companies don't need to pay that much money to train so they can spend that money on the work they make instead.

Plus a lot of creative types are free to go work and learn from other English speaking countries like the US, the quality of a lot of US TV dramas is incredible.

[Rollo]

I think the UK is best at doing quality TV. How do you guys do it?

The TV Licence Fee, Socialised media and better governance. It equates to bigger budgets and because the BBC is neither controlled by private enterprise nor the government, it's also quite independant.
The BBC, DW, France Télévisions, NHK and the ABC are probably the best in the world.

[Eki]

Nobody is buying my attempt at being Eki?

Being Eki takes years of practise.