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The Right Honourable Sir Gavyn Arthur became the 675th Lord Mayor of London in November 2002, holding a traditional post that has been regularly occupied in Great Britain since 1189. One of his prime jobs was promoting financial services in the City, the hotbed of the UK financial industry. The City of London is a major business and commercial centre— one of the focal points of global finance— ranking alongside New York City. Often referred to as just the City, it spans an area that is no more than 2.6 km², but the Lord Mayor has responsibility of representing both at home and abroad the financial services of the whole of London and indeed the whole United Kingdom. The Lord Mayor of London (a non party-political position, is not to be confused with the Mayor of London, who has certain limited powers over the area of the much larger Greater London.