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Last Call for Papers for the RGS-IBG Annual Conference, 1-4 August 2020, London
Un/doing borders of finance: dimensions and trajectories of European financial integration
(session sponsored by the Economic Geography Research Group)
Session convener: Dr. Mariana Santos (Cosmopolis – Centre for Urban Research, Vrije Universiteit Brussel)
Submissions by: 7th February
As envisaged single space of financial circulations, European financial integration materializes distinctive financial geographies that matter to geographers attuned to the nexus between financial markets, borders and spatiality. This nexus has been variously recoded in the context of different dimensions of EU financial space-making. If the Single market for financial services demanded the smoothing of national borders through legal-regulatory harmonization and cross-border market- making devices such as EU passporting, the move towards a Banking Union has kept the governance of prudential requirements and deposit protection schemes in terms of distinct national markets. Concomitantly, while financial settlement and payments infrastructures like TARGET2/SEPA have enacted a financial space of ‘European’ financial transactions, these have also become a key site of border security governance and surveillance. As the boundary between the monetary and data value of financial circulations becomes increasingly blurred in more recent initiatives such as PSD2 (the second Payment Services Directive), so do the boundaries of the ‘financial’ in European integration. In this context, Open Banking, fintech platforms and the so-called API (application programming interface) economy are reshaping understandings of the (Internal) competitive market, as well as intermediary ecologies in European Financial and Business centres.
This session aims to take stock of multiple dimensions of European financial integration by bringing together work developed within/in dialogue with economic and financial geography. The goal is two-fold: first, to deepen understandings of European financial integration as a set of relatively discrete processes of financial space-making; secondly, to discuss different ways in which European financial integration is empirically and methodologically encountered, as well as analytically problematized in economic/financial geography. It particularly welcomes contributions focused on the following issues:
- Geographies of EUropean financial marketization focused on processes of financial market- making (but also unmaking/remaking) distinctively entangled with the Single market (e.g. retail financial services, Capital Markets Union, Open banking etc.)
- Financial markets and payments infrastructures of the EU financial space
- EUropean geographies of cross-border debt/equity holding
- Intersections of Finance, security and digital data in the rendering and governance of a European geo-financial space
- Financial and Business centres, networks and ecologies of EU/ro des/integration
- Narratives and imaginaries of European financial des/integration
If interested, please send an abstract (approx. 250 words) with author details to [log in to unmask] by February 7, 2020. Please feel free to get in touch with any questions about the call or the session.
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