The top 50 cities for Business according to the MasterCard Worldwide Centers of Commerce Index™

Rank	City	Aggregate Score	Political Legal Framework	Economic Volatility	Ease of Doing Business	Financial	Knowledge / Info Flows	Business Center
1	London	77.79	84.11	84.11	87.87	82.86	52.72	71.75
2	New York	73.80	86.60	86.60	87.36	68.58	61.55	62.13
3	Tokyo	68.09	83.88	83.88	85.52	53.39	55.94	59.54
4	Chicago	67.19	86.60	86.60	86.08	55.84	50.71	53.88
5	Hong Kong	62.32	77.57	77.57	87.07	38.06	27.31	71.89
6	Singapore	61.95	88.12	88.12	88.24	32.59	28.78	66.16
7	Frankfurt	61.34	84.68	84.68	82.64	53.50	25.67	50.91
8	Paris	61.19	74.43	74.43	82.15	43.22	39.57	55.21
9	Seoul	60.70	74.63	74.63	73.83	53.00	42.95	51.37
10	Los Angeles	59.05	86.60	86.60	87.30	18.80	46.03	56.19
11	Amsterdam	57.30	82.49	82.49	82.41	32.89	28.04	53.03
12	Toronto	57.11	85.83	85.83	88.85	30.79	27.26	49.14
13	Boston	56.47	86.60	86.60	86.77	21.94	46.51	41.48
14	Sydney	56.26	82.58	82.58	84.56	37.61	23.24	47.54
15	Copenhagen	56.14	88.73	88.73	87.44	33.75	28.28	38.95
16	Madrid	56.06	81.30	81.30	79.44	41.22	23.99	44.03
17	Stockholm	54.51	88.78	88.78	85.93	26.72	34.36	36.79
18	San Francisco	54.36	86.60	86.60	87.40	13.00	39.80	45.11
19	Zurich	54.33	83.42	83.42	82.84	32.48	33.20	35.09
20	Atlanta	54.19	86.60	86.60	84.36	9.40	43.06	48.34
21	Miami	53.76	86.60	86.60	85.40	7.80	38.12	50.64
22	Houston	52.96	86.60	86.60	84.21	8.60	41.57	44.76
23	Washington D.C.	52.68	86.60	86.60	87.08	6.40	42.08	42.74
24	Berlin	52.24	84.68	84.68	82.23	19.31	32.33	39.27
25	Milan	52.23	72.67	72.67	76.00	39.09	16.27	42.05
26	Munich	51.85	84.68	84.68	82.39	20.00	27.03	40.51
27	Montreal	51.35	85.83	85.83	88.48	10.99	25.93	44.11
28	Vancouver	51.10	85.83	85.83	89.85	8.40	26.84	43.63
29	Brussels	51.05	70.82	70.82	85.13	21.05	23.80	41.88
30	Vienna	50.94	83.32	83.32	82.13	19.47	26.73	37.39
31	Dublin	50.72	79.30	79.30	87.69	19.24	20.46	41.41
32	Shanghai	50.33	68.63	68.63	64.46	38.30	17.16	52.09
33	Barcelona	50.15	81.30	81.30	79.44	20.51	22.01	39.31
34	Melbourne	48.89	82.58	82.58	83.47	8.00	22.47	45.20
35	Geneva	48.05	83.42	83.42	82.46	8.80	31.94	31.50
36	Bangkok	47.96	68.01	68.01	68.71	23.21	16.27	49.50
37	Dubai	46.61	78.04	78.04	73.76	23.04	4.24	48.82
38	Kuala Lumpur	45.82	64.74	64.74	76.04	25.80	7.90	39.69
39	Santiago	44.56	73.54	73.54	74.91	21.13	17.81	29.48
40	Budapest	43.75	61.99	61.99	75.10	23.08	15.48	30.67
41	Prague	43.55	70.00	70.00	74.72	19.31	10.63	30.49
42	Mexico City	43.35	66.44	66.44	67.48	25.73	12.90	33.50
43	Rome	43.18	72.67	72.67	73.69	6.80	18.39	33.77
44	Tel Aviv	43.00	63.17	63.17	76.54	17.50	13.46	32.48
45	Mumbai	42.70	50.76	50.76	55.09	38.71	14.73	30.34
46	Beijing	41.94	68.63	68.63	60.20	13.40	22.41	38.95
47	Johannesburg	41.37	62.68	62.68	76.71	24.48	3.22	31.28
48	Sao Paulo	41.14	49.83	49.83	63.06	31.43	14.50	34.23
49	Warsaw	40.56	58.71	58.71	70.25	21.11	14.30	26.02
50	Moscow	39.80	49.42	49.42	58.09	27.11	18.04	33.66

This list ranks the world's top 10 cities according to Mastercard Centers of Commerce Index. You can read the full story here.

• Legal and political frameworks (10%) - Degree to which legal and political frameworks enable the emergence of a Global Center of Commerce.
• Economic stability (10%) - Degree to which a Center of Commerce is handicapped by an unstable economic environment, currency, or unpredictable inflation.
• Ease of doing business (20%) - Availability of quality, cost-competitive trade logistics; level of interconnectedness; and ability to attract and retain talent due to a high quality of living.
• Financial flow (22%) - Measurement of the city's actual output or financial achievement.
• Business center (22%) - Degree to which the city intermediates the flow of goods, services, people, finances and information, etc.
• Knowledge creation and information flow (16%) - Degree to which information flows freely and knowledge is generated.