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LONDON and NEW YORK — In 2010, the biggest office tenants in these two metropolises would have been just as recognizable in 1910, and sum up the history of these places.

In New York, it was JPMorgan Chase, the bank founded by the financier who helped fund the creation of modern America. In London, it was HSBC, the former Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corp., a company that ties together London with its former Far East colonial empire.