If you are one of the tens of thousands who have read ALL YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT THE CITY, you already have a perfect grounding in what goes on in the City.

But it's impossible to study the City in isolation from the rest of the world's financial markets, and London is the leading international financial centre(IFC).

No book to date has captured both the virtuality of the international financial markets (IFMs) - the fact that currencies, equities, bonds, money market instruments and derivatives are traded in the either, and the geography of the IFCs: the fact that trading is done by people based in cities.

This book covers both the clicks 'n' the bricks. It takes the reader on a tour of the world's leading IFCs and the IFMs and sets them all in a macroeconomic context that explains how the IFMs have moved from investing to trading over the last 20 years, that caused the credit crunch and how governments tackles it - all in Chris Stoakes' easy-to-read style.

Quote "the second part of the bestselling guide to London's financial markets now set in a global context."