This prestigious work offers students, researchers and practitioners a survey of the state of financial geography including emerging and cutting edge areas and produce a comprehensive, up to date and definitive work of reference that can be cited as an authoritative source on the burgeoning subject of financial geography.

Introduction Part A. Theoretical perspectives in financial geography 2.Financial and Business Services: A Guide for the Perplexed 3. Foundations of Marxist Financial Geography 4. Cultural Economy of Finance 5. Beyond (de)regulation: law and the production of financial geographies 6. Financial Ecosystems and Ecologies Part B. Financial assets and markets 7. From Cowry Shells to Cryptos: Evolving geographies of currency 8. The geography of global stock markets and overseas listings 9. Housing under the empire of finance 10. Commodities 11. Infrastructure: The Harmonization of an Asset Class and Implications for Local Governance Part C. Investors 12. Long-Term Investment Management: The Principal-Agent Problem and Metrics of Performance 13. Knowledge, experience, and financial decision-making 14. Household Finance 15. Impact investors: The ethical financialization of development, society and nature 16. The Foundations of Development Banking: A Critical Review Part D. Intermediation 17. Banks and Credit 18. Insurance, and the prospects of insurability 19. Unbundling value chains in finance: offshore labor and the geographies of finance 20. FinTech: The dis/re-intermediation of finance? Part E. Regulation and governance 21. Legal Foundations of Finance 22. Central Banks and the Governance of Monetary Space 23. Financial geography, imbalances and crises: Excavating the spatial dimensions of asymmetric power 24. Credit Rating Agencies in the Era of Neoliberal Capitalism 25. Offshore and the Political and Legal Geography of Finance: 1066-2020 AD Part F. Finance, development and the environment 26. Finance and Development in sub-Saharan Africa 27. The renewable energy revolution: Risk, investor and financing structures - with case studies from Germany and Kenya 28. Finance and Climate Change 29. Environmental Sustainability and Finance