Where do green financial flows land? Why does green finance land where it does? What does it produce when it “hits the ground”?
Find out in our new special issue on 'Green finance and capital landing' edited by Antoine Ducastel & Bregje Van Veelen: www.tandfonline.com/journals/rfa...
NEW in Finance and Space: How does Singapore maintain its position as Asia's trade & finance hub amid net-zero transitions?
Emma Galbraith and Javier Revilla Diez reveal mechanisms of extraterritorial agency in leveraging SE Asia's assets
How did ESG go from BlackRock's mainstream opportunity to a political battlefield?
Christiansen et al's new commentary maps the anti-ESG backlash: 418 legislative proposals, $12B in divested funds, and the rise of explicitly anti-ESG investment products.
New in Finance and Space:
Alexander Kristiansen & Patrik Ström shows how DeFi mirrors offshore finance with arbitrage, opacity, and power concentrated in new hands
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Has DeFi really decentralised real estate?
Ang Liu’s new article in Finance & Space shows the Aspen Coin case mostly recentralises ownership rather than democratising it:
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🗞️ New in Finance and Space:
ECB’s QE didn’t realign Eurozone finance but fuelled capital switching abroad. What does this mean for Europe’s financial sovereignty?
Access David Bassens & Duncan Lindo latest here:
🔗 doi.org/10.1080/2833...
📣 Special Issue Call for Papers: "Multi-Level Phenomena in Financial Geography: Hierarchies, Systems, and Reflexivity" organised by Franziska Sohns: think.taylorandfrancis.com/special_issu...
Submit your abstracts by 31st December
💸 New in Finance & Space:
Ludovico Rella shows how banks are using blockchain and federated learning to turn our data (and its risks) into monetisable synthetic datasets.
🔗https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/2833115X.2025.2565528
Some excellent recent work by my research partner Ben Mkalama.
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Our own recent works @financeandspace.bsky.social and SER @sasemeeting.bsky.social :
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Who gets climate finance and who gets shut out?
New Finance & Space article from Jessie Poon, Stacy-ann Robinson & Peng Peng shows donor networks favour less-vulnerable, well-connected countries, while highly climate-vulnerable nations struggle to access funds.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
🏘️ NEW PAPER: How are housing booms & busts synchronized globally?
Hong and Wójcik's study of 51 countries reveals gloabl power asymmetries persist.
📖 Read in Finance and Space: doi.org/10.1080/2833...
🖼️ FINVIS:
Ruth Buck, Emily Rosenman and Louisa Holmes visualise Purdue Pharma's corporate ownersihp structure: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Their interactive diagram allows users to investigate the financial processes beneath the opioid epidemic: rkbuck1.github.io/finviz/
In critical dialogue with @nickbernards.bsky.social’s recent book 'Fictions of Financialization: Rethinking Speculation, Exploitation, and Twenty-First-Century Capitalism'
New in Finance & Space! 📢
Why does financialisation happen — and who benefits?
Hannah Hasenberger digs into the politics behind state financialisation
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Want to know more about #syntheticdata #assetization, #blockchain and #cloudinfrastructures in #finance? In this paper for @financeandspace.bsky.social , I talk about those topics, plus how synthetic data might be reworking financial #subjectivities! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
📢 New article in Finance and Space
“Sustainable finance down-to-earth? Insights from the German regional economy”
Lisa Knoll, Ulrich Klüh, Ilias Naji & Felix Rossmann examines how EU sustainable finance rules ‘land’ in Germany’s regional banking and SME networks.
🔗 doi.org/10.1080/2833...
New in Finance and Space:
Oriane Lafuente-Sampietro & Ariane Reyns examine how territorial & socioeconomic factors shape the spread of mutual credit systems using Sardex as a case study of decentralised finance in Italy.
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Really cool to see this very thoughtful critical essay on Fictions of Financialization, by Hannah Hasenberger, in @financeandspace.bsky.social!
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For centuries, Mumbai’s Koli fishing communities shaped life by the tides 🌊🐟. Their Koliwadas are more than hamlets, they’re vernacular regions of caste, craft & ecology.
Read Ayush Srivastava & Asma Sayyad’s RSA Summer Series blog 👇
👉 www.regionalstudies.org/rsa-blog/202...
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The mBridge CBDC project (China, HK, Thailand, UAE, Saudi Arabia) reveals how states are reshaping global finance at the crossroads of monetary & technological sovereignty.
New in Finance & Space from Jing Chu, Cheng Fang & Karen P. Y. Lai
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How is debt reshaping African cities?
In Malawi, the bond financing of roads in Lilongwe challenges the idea of African cities as “unbankable.”
👉 Matthew Lane, Evance Mwathunga & Jennifer Robinson in Finance & Space: doi.org/10.1080/2833...
Latin America is the most crisis-prone region in the world. But why?
In this new Finance & Space article, Belén Villegas Plá argues it is not just weak institutions but financial subordination driving political volatility.
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Got sharp insights on the shifting financial landscape?
In addition to original research articles, we accept submissions on a rolling basis for:
📝 Short-form commentaries
📊 FinVis – innovative visualizations that bring finance to life
More info here www.tandfonline.com/journals/rfa...
🚨New in Finance & Space 🚨
Eric Helleiner delivers a tour de force analysis of international finance amid polycrisis, encompassing:
🌍 Pandemic
🚩 Geopolitical conflict
🔥 Climate crisis
💱 Geoeconomic fragmentation
💣 Impending financial crisis?
Read it here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
RSA Award for Finance & Space Best Paper 2025 goes to...🥁 ...
Andreas Noelke, Goethe University, 'Private institutions in infrastructural geoeconomics: limits to the rise of emerging economies in global finance'🏆
Read this pathbreaking article here: doi.org/10.1080/2833...
Maria Siranova explores the relationship between bank branch closures and labour productivity in Slovakian SMEs
New article out now in Finance & Space: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
FinTech meets forest restoration. But does the innovation match the hype?
Felicia Liu, Benjamin Thompson and Jack L. Harris explore the rise of ‘FinTech for Forests’ 🌳A must-read for those tracking the green turn in finance.
New in Finance & Space: doi.org/10.1080/2833...
Another must read article out form Rob Aitken www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... this one in @financeandspace.bsky.social Bravo!
How do financial actors turn climate chaos into durable assets - and what happens when those assets crack under pressure?
Rob Aitken’s new paper traces the politics of climate risk, from micro-insurance to ISDS.
Out now in Finance and Space: doi.org/10.1080/2833...
Great to have our paper selected!
