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

Gotta catch 'em all? Gordon Kuo Siong Tan explores the intersection of blockchain and carbon markets in cryptocarbon projects https://buff.ly/415k2NZ

FINVIS: Shuai Shi & Ruiyang Wang map out the uneven geography of venture capital investment in China:

Is climate change leading to the collapse of the insurance industry? Kate Booth and Grace Martini explore insurance’s radically changing financial geographical imaginaries in their Finance & Space article 'Insurance in a changing climate: from commonsense to catastrophe

Did you know the ESG information industry is dominated by Europe and North America? Check out Andreas Dimmelmeier's FinVis: https://buff.ly/3Qhb0sn

Read our latest editorial 'Finance in the age of geoeconomics: intersections of finance, production, and digital technology' www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

How does private equity extract value from Germany’s solidarity-based healthcare system without detection? Richard Bůžek’s latest in Finance & Space uncovers two key mechanisms: 📌 Neoclassical economic framing 📌 Opaque corporate structures 🔗 Read more: buff.ly/4gexzs6

To those celebrating next week: warm wishes to you for the coming lunar new year! 🐍 🧧幸福安康 Wishing you happiness and good health 🧧萬事如愿May all your wishes be fulfilled

🚀 Finance & Space kicks off 2025 with a deep dive into financial geography! Paweł Węgrzyn's systematic literature review charts the evolution of the field, from financial centres to fintech, and highlights new research frontiers. A must-read. Read the full article here: doi.org/10.1080/2833...

Money flows like mercury - spatially & socially! 'Silicon Savannah' is often hailed as start-up success story. Scrutinizing the demographics of VC flows suggests a highly uneven social geography of start-up money. We offer some numbers & great visuals on this. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

The Inaugural Issue of Finance and Space @financeandspace.bsky.social is now online. Great move by the FINGEO network, who has been driving this all along... @rsablog.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/toc/rfas20/1/1

🌟 New Year, New Regional Perspectives! @regstud.bsky.social is seeking fresh blog submissions for 2025! Share your insights on regional development, policy & innovation. All perspectives are welcome from Global South to North, local to transnational! (1/2) @financeandspace.bsky.social

Read our latest editorial 'Finance in the age of geoeconomics: intersections of finance, production, and digital technology' www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Beltway bandits in the UK! Taylor and Gilbert’s new FinVis shows the geography of private-sector contracts awarded from the UK’s Foreign and Development Office. @karenpylai.bsky.social @regstud.bsky.social

Is bigger better? A new article from Flogel and Hejnova shows how the geographic concentration of banks in Europe leads to worse national financial outcomes in crises. @karenpylai.bsky.social @regstud.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Risky business! What drives risk preference for financial instruments: your individual background or cultural context? A new article from Clark et al show how institutional and cultural factors matter through a global comparison. @karenpylai.bsky.social @regstud.bsky.social

How can we research the super rich? In their recent Finance & Space article, Rowland Atkinson, Katie Higgins & Jonathan Bourne pioneer machine learning methods to profile the global urban elite

🚨Registration deadline extended to 15 Dec 2024🚨 Do join us in Singapore for the second FinGeo Global Conference on 'Geopolitics and Geoeconomics of Finance', 26-28 February 2025. Details: fass.nus.edu.sg/events/geopo... @financeandspace.bsky.social

Urban governance increasingly hinges on speculative real estate development—but what does that mean for the communities living at the heart of these cities?

Did you know that Private Equity firms have invested nearly $1 trillion into U.S. healthcare over the past decade? 🏥 💵 Or that these investments are often linked to higher costs and mixed to harmful impacts on healthcare outcomes? 😷

📢 New research from Stefanos Ioannu highlights the relationship between community belongingness and small business banking in Scotland's islands 🏝️🏦 #FinanceAndSpace #CommunityBanking

Very happy to see this one out! I wrote a short article for @financeandspace.bsky.social 🥳 on China's rise within the context of increasing geopolitical competition and its implications for the politics of global finance 🙂 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....