Proof, for those inclined to think that way, that the City of London is every bit the casino they thought it was.
The City of London is gaining an edge in the race with other global financial centers to snatch a slice of offshore trade in the yuan, also known as renminbi.
The ARA, which is based in the City of London, is staffed by civilians and not police officers.
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The truth is that each of these operates as a branch office for the City of London, the square mile that is the epicenter of finance in London.
The Freedom of the City of London, which is believed to have first been conferred in 1237, is granted to those who have made outstanding contributions to London life.
The prime minister's claim is that the City of London - the centre of financial services in Europe - is the subject of regulatory assault by EU directives.
She is one of many prominent UK figures to be honoured by the city, but Murray Craig, the clerk of the Chamberlain's Court at the City of London, says that this is a "symbolic" modern version of a tradition which began in the 13th Century as an "economic transaction".
Make no mistake - the appointment of Joanna Shields as the new boss of London's Tech City cluster is a big coup for No 10.
The paper highlights the percentage of deaths attributable to man-made airborne particles is highest in the City of London.
The City of London Corporation, which is responsible for the forest, said the request would be "properly considered".
The aim of most, judging by the professions of the new generation, is to make money, often in the City of London, sometimes in the media, but not primarily to take up public office as their ancestors did almost by right.
One defends the freedom and rights of the English Church, another relates to the privileges enjoyed by the City of London and the third - the most famous - is generally held to have etablished the right to trial by jury.
That said the wider cause of globalism is now thoroughly discredited in the UK. Not the least of its problems is its close association with the bankers of the City of London.
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Lord Sutherland - formerly Stewart Sutherland - is a former chief inspector of schools and is currently provost at Gresham College in the City of London and president of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.
But what In The City is all about is getting the industry out of London and up to the North so that it can think more clearly about where it is going and who it wants to take along for the ride.
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But when the immediate crisis is resolved, the City must hold a full inquest to learn the lessons of the Bumi scandal if London is to not to squander its greatest asset: the confidence of its investors.
The job of chairman is to oversee a management team's efforts to rival the City of London.
The condemnation case the Supreme Court will be hearing is Kelo v. the City of New London (Conn.).
The City of London Corporation's planning committee is due to hear legal advice on Friday and decide whether to take court action against the demonstrators.
But just a few minutes down the road, in the trendy east-London borough of Hackney, is one of the city's most historic residences.
Even Newham council, in one of the poorest parts of London, is trying to ship some of its housing-benefit claimants out of the city, arguing that it cannot find places within the borough for them at the new rates.
The Freedom of the City dates back to 1237 and is given for outstanding contributions to London life.
This expansion of Chinese business in London is the second bit of good news for the City in the past few days, following the announcement by the insurance broking giant Aon that it would be moving its corporate HQ from Chicago to London.
On the other hand it is certainly true that the theatres were protected against the leaders of the City of London, who heartily detested them, by some of the most cultivated and high-born figures in the land, including the Earls of Pembroke and Leicester (also a pupil of Dee), Philip Sidney and Queen Elizabeth herself.
Ajit Chambers is a former City of London banker who quit finance to set up the Old London Underground Company in 2009, which is leasing the subterranean land from the city.
Then it argues that long-term UK economic policies have been directed at boosting the City of London in particular while, by contrast, it is claimed that policies tailored to Scottish circumstances could have generated a higher level of growth.
Money from the David and Elaine Potter Foundation is funding the Bureau of Investigative Journalism (BIJ), based at City University in London.
But when you disappear into the great anonymity of a big city like London, what you find is that you then resurface and you've actually, by some process of osmosis, brought yourself into company with like minds.
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