How do you study finance in the context of economic sanctions? New in Finance & Space, Roxana Ehlke reflects on fieldwork in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan after 2022.
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New FinVis: Pedro Araujo maps the local networks of 301 Swiss banking elites in Switzerland's three main cities, 1890 to 2020, tracing a shift from dense local embeddedness to disengagement as banking internationalised.
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Why were CDOs so fragile? New in Finance & Space, Andreas Kanaris Miyashiro uses Lehman Brothers' archives to show how clashing valuation models produced 'calculative instability' at the heart of the asset form.
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Where next for financial geography? In a new Finance & Space editorial, James D. Sidaway & Dariusz Wójcik read the field through geopolitics and geoeconomics, from US–China rivalry, sanctions and dollar hegemony to its longer genealogies.
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Win-win or ominous? New in Finance & Space, Steven R. Henderson examines local government income strips in England, where councils sell their covenant to investors. Two cinema-anchored schemes show how these instruments can go badly wrong.
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How does ESG legitimise farmland as an asset class? New in Finance & Space, André Magnan & Emily Duncan show how Canadian farmland investors use ESG claims to build an 'agricultural imaginary'
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New FinVis: Benceković, Bresnihan, McCabe & Fitzgerald illustrate how capital is seeks to solve the frustrating puzzle of consolidating Ireland's fragmented smallholder landscapes:
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This week's editor's pick from David Bassens: Martijn van der Linden's 'When finance drives house prices: a policy agenda for affordable housing in Europe' tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…
📄 New in Finance & Space (Vol. 3, Issue 1)
Theurillat & Donzé use Swiss banks in Japan to examine how domestic financial networks shape international financial centres.
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📚 New F&S collection: Geography still matters — spatial dimensions of banking
Fenghua Pan has curated a fascinating collection illustrating that geography remains essential in banking and finance. Open for submissions!
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This week's editor's pick 💫
Sara Benceković follows the ownership trails of Croatia's banks from 1989 to 2023, exploring how the 'subordinated financialisation' of its banks was co-produced by the Croatian state.
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This week's ResearchGate Editor's Pick is 'Quo vadis neoliberalism in an age of resurgent state capitalism?' by Alami et al: tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…
New in Finance & Space, Jingting Lei, Malcolm Campbell-Verduyn, Christian Steglich & Rafael Wittek examine two decades of bank-to-nonbank (BNB) network evolution (2002–2022)
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New in Finance & Space: Sara Benceković shows how Yugoslavia's collapse opened Croatia's banking sector to Western European takeover. The Croatian case raises fundamental questions about what is lost when banking stops being local.
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Congratulations to Stefanos Ioannou, recipient of the 2026 Finance and Space Best Referee Award!
A huge thank you for your invaluable contribution to the journal through your time and expertise as a reviewer.
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We're delighted to announce the 2026 Finance and Space Best Paper Award (1 of 2) goes to Eric Helleiner for 'International Finance and the Global Polycrisis'
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New in Finance & Space: Neha Arora & Nihan Akyelken use financial diaries as a spatial–affective method to trace the everyday economies of construction and service workers at large urban infrastructure projects in Johannesburg and Istanbul.
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Winner of the 2026 Finance and Space Best Paper Award! (1 of 2)
Sam Unsworth for: 'We don't want to be colonialism 2.0': emerging frontiers of climate finance for technology innovation'
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Which city has the most diversified elite wealth? Which banking centre is most globally connected? Where does venture capital flow in China? This new Finance and Space collection on financial networks tackles these questions and more
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