Financial Centres International (ISSN 2009-2717) - 'The forum for the builders of the leading financial centers of the future', is the monthly periodical covering the companies and activities in the world's financial centres. It provides a global forum for financial services leaders to help shape the financial centres world of the future.

In our title "Financial Centres International", and in our sub-title we use the alternative spellings of the word 'centre', or 'center'. The former being British English, and the latter US English.

For our main title, we opted for the British form, because its usage was greatest amongst most centres on the planet, and in the widest part of the planet. This, of course may change over time, and accordingly our usage will be open to both forms, and, while in the title, we opt for the 'British' form, we use both terms interchangeably in the Style Guide for the publication. The continued use of the British term reflects the still slightly more common usage globally of the term 'centre' rather than 'center'. In Australasia, and in Asia, the term 'centre' is more common, mostly in Hong Kong and Singapore, and in India. In Canada, the term is regularly used interchangeably. However, in the US 'center' is the dominant form, and in new centres, including China, where, for example the 'Huangdong Outsourcing Financial Center' uses the US term.

Our policy, for the time being will be to reflect this dual approach to nomenclature, reflecting also a dual approach, perhaps, to other aspects of our coverage, as we aim to provide a forum for the exchange of ideas and philosophies, with an aim to provide a fertile environment for the synthesis of new solutions in financial centres development.