Dublin was ranked one of the top five European ‘cities of the future’ according to the latest FDI European City of the Future rankings.
Dublin has once again been ranked as one of the top European cities for investment, according to a report published by the FDI.
The Irish capital scaled two places in the list to third with the Financial Times magazine applauding it for its heavy emphasis on software and IT investment.
Research conducted by Foreign Direct Investment Intelligence (FDi) deemed Dublin as having great economic potential, losing out only to London in the first place and Amsterdam in second place.
To make the assessment, 370 European cities were divided by population size into five groups — major, large, mid-sized, small, and micro cities — as well as 148 European regions were divided into three groups — large, mid-sized, and small regions. FDi also assessed 38 local enterprise partnerships in the UK.
Dublin is currently home to half of the world’s top banks, 250 global financial institutions, 10 of the world’s top 20 insurance companies, nine of the world’s top 10 pharmaceutical companies, and 17 of the world’s top medtech companies.