Official London Think Tank of NeuroCampur

Our Think Tank in the Square Mile

Z/Yen Group, the City of London's leading commercial think tank, joins NeuroCampur as our official London think tank.

Founded in 1994 to promote societal advance through better finance and technology, Z/Yen measures, convenes and advises the world's financial and technology centres. Its indices are read by governments, regulators and investors on every continent, and its forums bring the City of London together with partners from Seoul to Kuala Lumpur.

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1994

Founded in the City of London

117

Financial centres ranked by the GFCI

200

FS Club events every year

2007

GFCI tracking since

Groundbreaking work

The indices and forums the world reads

Global Financial Centres Index

Since 2007, the authoritative twice yearly guide to financial centre competitiveness, published with the China Development Institute.

Global Green Finance Index

The world's leading measure of how financial centres deliver green finance, now in its nineteenth edition with China Construction Bank.

Smart Centres Index

Tracks how technology and financial centres are prepared for new technology applications, including artificial intelligence.

Distributed Futures

Explores smart ledgers, quantum computing, space, machine learning and materials science, and what they mean for society.

Long Finance

Asks a simple question with deep consequences: when would we know our financial system is working?

FS Club

A leading global knowledge community for executives in business, technology and finance, with around 200 events a year.

The Chair

Professor Michael Mainelli

Chair, Z/Yen Group · 695th Lord Mayor of the City of London (2023 to 2024)

Commendatore, Ordine al Merito della Repubblica Italiana
British Computer Society Director of the Year 2005
Honorary Fellow, Chartered Institute for Securities & Investment
Visiting Professor, UCL Bartlett School and City St George's
Educated at Harvard, Trinity College Dublin and the LSE

Full biography

Scientist and economist, Professor Mainelli co-founded Z/Yen in 1994 and has guided it for more than three decades. His career joins a decade of technology research, a decade in finance and over twenty years combining the two, always with one purpose: better decisions about technology and economics for the good of society.

Co-founder of Z/Yen

Built the City of London's leading commercial think tank from 1994.

Creator of the GFCI

Conceived the Global Financial Centres Index, Global Green Finance Index, Long Finance and the London Accord.

Lord Mayor of London

Served as the 695th Lord Mayor of the City of London (2023 to 2024) and as Sheriff (2019 to 2021).

Gresham Professor

Mercers' School Memorial Professor of Commerce at Gresham College, now Emeritus Professor and Life Fellow.

Technology pioneer

Produced Mundocart in 1983, the first complete digital map of the world, and won awards for PropheZy prediction software.

Author and scholar

Over 50 journal articles, 250 commercial articles and six books, including the award winning The Price of Fish.

Presence in ASEAN

Why Z/Yen matters to Malaysia and the region

Kuala Lumpur on the global stage

Kuala Lumpur is ranked in the Global Financial Centres Index alongside Singapore, and was the only Asia Pacific centre to rise more than ten places in GFCI 36.

A regional lens

Singapore, Kuala Lumpur, Labuan, Jakarta, Bangkok, Manila and Ho Chi Minh City are all assessed, giving ASEAN policymakers a shared, evidence based benchmark.

Green and smart finance

The Global Green Finance Index and Smart Centres Index help ASEAN centres measure progress on sustainable finance and readiness for AI and new technology.

A bridge to the City

Through FS Club and Financial Centre Futures, Asian centres from Busan to Taipei bring their story to the City of London each year.

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