New FinVis: Benceković, Bresnihan, McCabe & Fitzgerald illustrate how capital is seeks to solve the frustrating puzzle of consolidating Ireland's fragmented smallholder landscapes: 🔗 doi.org/10.1080/2833...

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' www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

When finance drives house prices: a policy agenda for affordable housing in Europe

The draft report of the Special Committee on the Housing Crisis of the European Parliament posits that high house prices are caused by the imbalance between housing demand and supply, and cautions ...

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📄 New in Finance & Space (Vol. 3, Issue 1) Theurillat & Donzé use Swiss banks in Japan to show how domestic networks shape international financial centres, integrating business history with financial geography. www.tandfonline.com/journals/rfa...

📚 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! Explore the collection: www.tandfonline.com/journals/rfa...

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. Important post-socialist case of banking financialisation.

This week's Editor's Pick is 'Quo vadis neoliberalism in an age of resurgent state capitalism?' by Alami et al: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... Editor David Bassens picked this as it dissects the transforming role of the state amid mutating neoliberalism with a focus on the state-finance nexus

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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) 📖 Read it here: doi.org/10.1080/2833...

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. Read it here: doi.org/10.1080/2833...

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. Watch Stefanos receive the award here: www.regionalstudies.org/news/2026-fs...

2026 Finance and Space Best Referee Award - RSA Main

Watch as Dariusz Wojcik, Editor in Chief of Finance and Space, presents the 2026 Award for the Finance and Space Best Referee to Stefanos Ioannou (Oxford Brookes University, UK)

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We're delighted to announce the 2026 Finance and Space Best Paper Award! (1 of 2) goes to Erc Helleiner for: 'International Finance and the Global Polycrisis' Read the full paper: 🔗 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... Watch Eric being presented the award: www.regionalstudies.org/news/2026-fs...

International finance and the global polycrisis

It has become commonplace to suggest that we are living through a kind of ‘global polycrisis’. This article shows how the mobilisation of international finance has been at the core of political res...

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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. Read it here: doi.org/10.1080/2833...

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' Read the full paper here: 🔗 doi.org/10.1080/2833... Watch here: www.regionalstudies.org/news/2026-fs...

2026 Finance and Space Best Paper Award (1) - RSA Main

Watch as Dariusz Wojcik, Editor in Chief of Finance and Space presents the award for the Best Paper published in 2025 to Sam Unsworth (Division of Environmental Systems Analysis, Chalmers University…

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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 👉 www.tandfonline.com/journals/rfa...

Climate governance is increasingly enacted through financial mechanisms rather than public policy. This collection examines the politics of climate finance and calls for a new research agenda centred on value, power and justice. 👉 www.tandfonline.com/journals/rfa...

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...

Carbon lock-in: why international financial centres matter for post-carbon transitions

International financial centres (IFCs) are not merely sites where global capital concentrates; they are legal-economic architectures that actively reproduce carbon lock-in. This commentary conceptu...

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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...

Alternative remittances to Venezuela: ad hoc technological diffusion and monetary pluralism

Venezuelan migrants have historically been excluded from formal money transfer systems. Consequently, the diaspora has a strong culture of using alternative remittance methods. This article examine...

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📢 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...

The FDI location motive and effectiveness of tax incentives: evidence for Indonesia

Tax incentives are used to attract foreign direct investment (FDI), especially in less-developed countries, but the evidence for their effect is mixed. Recently, it has been argued that these incen...

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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

Positioning for net-zero: Singapore’s extraterritorial agency in global production and financial networks

The restructuring of global production networks (GPNs) towards decarbonisation is tightly coupled with a parallel transformation of global financial networks (GFNs), yet scholarship has given limit...

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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.

The war on ‘woke’: anti-ESG investing and research directions in financial geography

Environmental, social and governance (ESG) investing has become a site of struggle, around which a range of actors at multiple scales and in different legal, political and financial spheres are mob...

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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

Multi-Level Phenomena in Financial Geography: Hierarchies, Systems, and Reflexivity

This special issue invites contributions on multi-level phenomena in financial geography.

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💸 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