Actual Typology of the World Financial Centers

Abstract

The global system of financial centers is considered in the article. The actual typologies of the world financial centers are studied according to such criteria as location of the main headquarters and regional offices of transnational corporations, the role of financial centers in the world economy, the stages of financial centers evolution, subordination, functional specialization, time of formation, etc. It is determined that the identification of financial centers only as offshore areas, which is traced in some scientific studies, is quite debatable. It is found out that certain terms that are used to determine the type of financial center (including regional financial centers) are diverse in nature and can be used to denote different taxonomic levels of financial centers.