"The International Finance Center is Hong Kong's premier IT address, " says Lane Leskela, research director for e-commerce intelligence services at Gartner Group (Asia Pacific).

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The Kwoks' developments include Hong Kong's three tallest towers: Central Plaza, the International Finance Center and Hong Kong's tallest building, the 1, 588-foot (484-meter) International Commerce Center.

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Shanghai plans to be an international finance center by 2020, and creating a board on the Shanghai Stock Exchange where foreign companies can list their shares is seen as an essential component.

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Microseconds away (as the e-mail flies) is the International Finance Center, with an IT occupancy of 5% (that does not include a large number of banking and finance companies that work closely with the dotcoms).

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He even has a five-year contract with the Malaysian Central Bank run non-profit, International Center for Leadership in Finance, to train 210 IR managers per year on how to come up with a road map for the organization.

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The city is also a principal banking and finance center, and the home to more than 30 international financial institutions, helping to make San Francisco rank eighteenth in the world's top producing cities and fifteenth place in the top twenty global financial centers.

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