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Country reportsMarch 30 2010

A safe harbour

Malta ranks 13th in the world for financial market sophistication, according to a World Economic Forum survey. It raised its game considerably before it joined the EU in 2004, and now enjoys the presence of many international banks, insurers and fund managers operating within an EU-compliant regulatory regime. Writer Michael Imeson
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A safe harbour

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The world is full of cities and smaller nations staking a claim to be the next big thing in finance. They know they haven't got a hope of toppling London, New York, Singapore, Hong Kong and other locations from the top of the first division of international financial centres - or of even getting into the first division. But many of them make a good case for being taken seriously as emerging regional financial centres and upsetting the order of things further down the table.

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