The Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich has been looking at the power and connections of corporations. In an article in New Scientist the Zurich team of researchers has looked at the world’s 37 million companies, identifying 43,060 transnational corporations, of which a core of 1,318 are connected to each other, forming the backbone of the global economy. Within this group, 147 of the companies are classified as highly connected to each other, accounting for 40% of the total wealth of the core network. Many of the super-connected are financial institutions, with Barclays plc placed at the top of the list. No surprise then that Financial Services has been one of the top three FDI sectors over the last decade…