New book: Extroverted Financialisation

Extroverted Financialisation: Banking on US Dollar Debt. Mareike Beck, Cambridge University Press 2025. Extroverted Financialisation offers a new account of the Americanization of global finance through the concept of ‘extroverted financialisation’. The study presents German banks as active participants of financialisation, demonstrating how deeply entangled they were with global markets since post-WWII …

Just published: F&S vol. 11 no. 2

Finance and Society, vol. 11 no. 2 (2025).   The editors of Finance and Society are pleased to announce the publication of volume 11, number 2. The issue includes articles on the global politics of Insurtech, macro-financial dynamics in Canada, and digital microcredit regulation in Kenya, plus a special section on central …

New book: Social foundations of global finance

The Social Foundations of Global Finance. Edited by Ben Clift and Chris Clarke, Agenda Publishing 2025. Through the interrogation of the social foundations of global finance, Tim Sinclair revealed the power relations within the global political economy. His unique and pioneering perspective examines the role of private authority, the institutional …

New book: Logistics and power

Logistics and Power: Supply Chains from Slavery to Space. Susan Zieger, University of California Press 2025. Movement is the lifeblood of capital, even more so than growth. If goods, people, and information don’t flow, then profits don’t either. Ensuring that laborers, shipping containers, media, commercially valuable data, and much else …

Special issue CFP: Making climate finance work

Making climate finance work: Insights from ethics, economics and law. To be published in Cambridge Forum on Corporate Climate Governance. A planned special issue of Cambridge Forum on Corporate Climate Governance aims to explore climate finance from a cross-disciplinary perspective. This themed issue will examine the role of finance in the climate …

Design workshop: Making banks, 10 Sep 2025

Making banks: Speculative, central, decentralised, impossible. Copenhagen Business School, 10 September 2025, 10.30–12.30. The Finance and Society Network (FSN) and the Organizations, Markets and Governance Research Group (OMG) at Copenhagen Business School are hosting a half-day design workshop on the theme of banking. The workshop invites participants to collectively imagine …

FSN 2025: Conference programme

Finance and society conference 2025. Copenhagen Business School, 11-12 September. The programme for this year’s conference is now available here. There are limited places available for those not on the programme who may wish to attend. If you would like to join the conference, please register here. All signals indicate that the …

Forthcoming book: Trading beyond understanding

Trading Beyond Understanding: Machine Learning, Risk, and Markets. Christian Borch, Stanford University Press 2026. Machine learning is fundamentally transforming financial markets. Where trading strategies were once crafted by human experts—executed manually or through pre-coded rules—firms now build models that generate the strategies themselves. These are not just tools but trading …

New book: Regulation and regulators after global financial crises

Regulation and Regulators After Global Financial Crises: Enforcement and Adaptation. Aleksandra Jordanoska, Routledge 2025. This book provides an original theoretically and empirically grounded analysis of regulatory enforcement activism in post-crisis periods and the ensuing regulatory interactions. It critically addresses the ‘more regulation’ enforcement agenda relating to financial misconduct in the …

New book: State, capitalism, and finance in emerging markets

State, Capitalism, and Finance in Emerging Markets: Between Subordination and Statecraft. Johannes Petry and Andreas Nölke (eds.), Bristol University Press 2025. What role do emerging markets play in the global financial system? Are they subordinated within global financial hierarchies? Or do they have autonomy, even power, to use finance to …