How does finance shape geopolitical power? Our new Finance & Space special collection brings together work examining how financial systems underpin contemporary state power and global competition. Browse the collection here: www.tandfonline.com/journals/rfa...

Where does debt-driven growth actually happen? New research in Finance & Space finds it may not be where debt is taken on, but elsewhere in the system. Read James Wood's 'The spatial dynamics of America’s debt-driven growth model' here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Why are international finance centres absent from debates on post-carbon transitions? In this new commentary, Sabine Dörry calls for forensic research into the institutional structures through which IFCs constrain rapid and just transitions. Read it here: doi.org/10.1080/2833...

New in Finance and Space: Daniel Robins on how Venezuelan migrants repurpose US FinTech for remittances. A striking case of monetary pluralism from the ground up. Open access here: doi.org/10.1080/2833...

📢 New call for submissions Mobile Regions: Immigration, Infrastructure and Policy Making www.regionalstudies.org/wp-content/u...

🚨 Check out Finance and Space's inaugural themed collection 🚨 These articles on Climate Governance and finace examine how risks become assets, adaptation becomes transparency, and intermediaries reshape who controls climate planning: www.tandfonline.com/journals/rfa...

How is law used to make voluntary carbon markets liquid? Lukas Bogner traces how UNIDROIT's standardisation of carbon credits reshapes property rights in the Global South and drives jurisdictional competition in the Global North. Open access here:

Do tax incentives attract foreign investment or just signal that a government is trying? Sudiana, Jones and Wren survey of 224 foreign-owned plants in Indonesia find that labour costs drive location but incentives don't. Full paper: doi.org/10.1080/2833...

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 🔗 doi.org/10.1080/2833...

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: 🔗 doi.org/10.1080/2833...

🗞️ 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. www.techpolicy.press/how-digital-... www.dgb-bildungswerk.de/gute-arbeit/... Our own recent works @financeandspace.bsky.social and SER @sasemeeting.bsky.social : www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... academic.oup.com/ser/article/...

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/

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. 🔗 doi.org/10.1080/2833...

Really cool to see this very thoughtful critical essay on Fictions of Financialization, by Hannah Hasenberger, in @financeandspace.bsky.social! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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... Found this interesting?

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 👉 doi.org/10.1080/2833...

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. 👉 doi.org/10.1080/2833...

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!

Calling the RSA community for fresh perspectives 📢 @regstud.bsky.social @rsachiefexec.bsky.social @rsa-adp.bsky.social @regionalstudies.bsky.social @financeandspace.bsky.social @rsa-rsrs.bsky.social @rsa-regions.bsky.social @rsa-tpg.bsky.social Let’s shape the future of regions together 🌎✍️

'We don’t want to be colonialism 2.0' New Finance & Space article from Sam Unsworth investigates VC investment in climate technology startups for Africa: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Two Finance & Space articles have been selected in @regstud.bsky.social 's curated special collection 'Navigating Regional Transformation'! Access the collection here: www.regionalstudies.org/news/navigat...

Who gets to shape renewable energy projects — and who gets left out? Alain Nadaï, Pascal Grouiez & Arnaud Assié show how different forms of renewable energy and their financing enatil different modes of territorialisation. 🔗 doi.org/10.1080/2833...

New article 📣 "Renewables in the queue: capital landing and the present crisis in power transmission" by Sara Knuth and Jessie Ventrella www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Counting down to #RSA2025 and we are delighted to share a collection of free-to-access articles from across our journals www.regionalstudies.org/news/navigat... @regionalstudies.bsky.social @spatialeconomic.bsky.social @rsa-tpg.bsky.social @financeandspace.bsky.social @rsa-rsrs.bsky.social

📣 Finance & Space's Annual Lecture 2024 'The Waterworks of Money' from Martijn van der Linden, Thomas Bollen and Carlijn Kingma, online now: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

📣 New FinVis 'The Global City Network of Firms' from Yue Wang, Thomas Sigler & Julia Loginova: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

'Building the de-risking state' is now open access on @financeandspace.bsky.social. In it we examine the careful political work of building what @danielagabor.bsky.social and Sylla call a 'derisking consensus' in sectors with social/green logics. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Excellent new visualisation of cities in globalisation published in @financeandspace.bsky.social by Yue Wang, Thomas Sigler and Julia Loginova gawc.lboro.ac.uk/visualisatio...

climate risk x muni bonds 🔥⛈️🏦 Mark Davidson and Samuel Cooper examine trends in how municipalities disclose climate risk to prospective bondholders www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

🗣️ AI is transforming financial sector labour markets... Or is it? In their Finance & Space original research article, Michael Samers and Yujia He find no evidence that AI has led to the decentralisation of financial labour markets in the US: https://buff.ly/3EJCrZl

How is it that financial instruments such as REITs come to be framed as solutions to urban problems? James Christopher Mizes, Martine Drozdz, Sinan Erensü, Ozan Karaman, & Mathilde Moaty explore this question through the case of REITs in Nairobi: https://buff.ly/4k144gF