31.   He compares Pudong to La Defense, a new financial center in Paris where the bank has its headquarters.

32.   He said Hong Kong, as an international financial center, had no choice but to accept the re-ratings.

33.   He said the existing alliances have been consistently unable to provide his company with reliable, affordable phone service outside major financial centers like London and Frankfurt.

34.   His latest project is positioning Frankfurt as the dominant financial center in a unified Europe.

35.   His comments came at a press conference prior to a symposium on Germany as a financial center.

36.   Hu said that Singapore wants to be a financial center for Asia in the way London is for Europe.

37.   Hong Kong and Singapore, two major Asian financial centers, had pledged compliance but had not yet seized accounts or blocked access to their banks.

38.   If the old financial centers fail to provide this, new electronic trading systems are eager to fill the gap.

39.   In danger of losing its status as a world financial center, Japan has made financial reform the centerpiece of its vow to broadly deregulate the economy.

40.   In addition to its financial centers in San Francisco, Denver, New York and elsewhere, it plans to launch thousands of small outlets inside Target stores nationwide.