Frankfurt Notches a Win as Cities Fight for Green-Finance Crown

A city worker enters Taunusanlage U-Bahn underground train station in the financial district in Frankfurt. Germany.

Photographer: Alex Kraus/Bloomberg
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Frankfurt has chalked up a badly-needed victory over bigger European rivals in the race for a slice of the lucrative green finance industry.

The German city beat out London and other financial centers when it was named Wednesday as the main location of a new body for devising global sustainability disclosure standards.