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Brexit and ‘missing’ financial services jobs in the United Kingdom (2023)
Journal Article
Hall, S., & Heneghan, M. (2023). Brexit and ‘missing’ financial services jobs in the United Kingdom. Contemporary Social Science, 18(2), 235-249. https://doi.org/10.1080/21582041.2023.2189294

In this paper, we examine the impact of Brexit on financial services employment in the UK. Initial estimates suggested that around 10,000 jobs could relocate from London to other EU financial centres as a result of Brexit. Official statistics show th... Read More about Brexit and ‘missing’ financial services jobs in the United Kingdom.

The changing spatial arrangements of global finance: Financial, social and legal infrastructures (2023)
Journal Article
Hall, S., Leaver, A., Seabrooke, L., & Tischer, D. (2023). The changing spatial arrangements of global finance: Financial, social and legal infrastructures. Environment and Planning A, 55(4), 923-930. https://doi.org/10.1177/0308518X231159396

The spatial arrangements of global finance have changed significantly over the last 30 years, entangling new actors, relations and sites. Infrastructures have developed to stabilize change and complexity. The collection advocates for a broader unders... Read More about The changing spatial arrangements of global finance: Financial, social and legal infrastructures.

Anticipating Sino-UK fintech networks and the changing geographies of money as infrastructure (2023)
Journal Article
Hall, S. (2023). Anticipating Sino-UK fintech networks and the changing geographies of money as infrastructure. Environment and Planning A, 55(4), 931-948. https://doi.org/10.1177/0308518X221140413

This paper examines Sino-UK financial relations in the fintech sector. Through an empirical focus on fintech payments systems, the analysis locates fintech within broader research on the internationalisation of Chinese finance. Conceptually, the pape... Read More about Anticipating Sino-UK fintech networks and the changing geographies of money as infrastructure.

Locating state capitalism: Financial centres and the internationalisation of Chinese banks in London (2022)
Journal Article
Hall, S. (2023). Locating state capitalism: Financial centres and the internationalisation of Chinese banks in London. Environment and Planning A, 55(5), 1239-1254. https://doi.org/10.1177/0308518X221130080

This paper examines the internationalisation of Chinese state-owned commercial banks in London's financial centre from the 2010s onwards. These banks have transformed from primarily servicing Chinese state-owned enterprises to making up four of the l... Read More about Locating state capitalism: Financial centres and the internationalisation of Chinese banks in London.

Interlocking corporate and policy networks in financial services: Paris-London relations post Brexit (2022)
Journal Article
Hall, S., & Heneghan, M. (2023). Interlocking corporate and policy networks in financial services: Paris-London relations post Brexit. ZFW – Advances in Economic Geography, 67(2-3), 92-104. https://doi.org/10.1515/zfw-2021-0044

This paper examines the impacts of Brexit as an external shock to European financial centre relations. In particular, it studies the changing nature of Paris-London financial relations post Brexit. Early on in the Brexit process, Paris was not unders... Read More about Interlocking corporate and policy networks in financial services: Paris-London relations post Brexit.

Respatialising Finance: Power, Politics and Offshore Renminbi Market Making in London (2021)
Book
Hall, S. (2021). Respatialising Finance: Power, Politics and Offshore Renminbi Market Making in London. (9781119385547). Wiley. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781119386018

Respatialising Finance is one of the first detailed empirical studies of how and why London became the leading western financial centre within the wider Chinese economic and political project of internationalising its currency, the renminbi (RMB). Th... Read More about Respatialising Finance: Power, Politics and Offshore Renminbi Market Making in London.

The emerging geography of European financial centres: Fragmentation in the European Union and concentration in the UK? (2020)
Journal Article
Heneghan, M., & Hall, S. (2021). The emerging geography of European financial centres: Fragmentation in the European Union and concentration in the UK?. European Urban and Regional Studies, 28(1), 40-46. https://doi.org/10.1177/0969776420975817

© The Author(s) 2020. The United Kingdom’s (UK) withdrawal from the European Union (EU) will reshape the geography of European finance. From January 2021, the UK will no longer be able to sell financial services cross-border into the EU’s Single Mark... Read More about The emerging geography of European financial centres: Fragmentation in the European Union and concentration in the UK?.

The spatial dynamics of financial activities in Beijing: agglomeration economies and urban planning (2019)
Journal Article
Pan, F., Hall, S., & Zhang, H. (2020). The spatial dynamics of financial activities in Beijing: agglomeration economies and urban planning. Urban Geography, 41(6), 849-864. https://doi.org/10.1080/02723638.2019.1700071

Beijing is widely recognized as the leading political, cultural, education and innovation center in China. However, its role as a financial center in national and international financial landscapes is less well understood. In response, this paper spe... Read More about The spatial dynamics of financial activities in Beijing: agglomeration economies and urban planning.

Placing the state within geofinance (2018)
Journal Article
Hall, S. (2018). Placing the state within geofinance. Dialogues in Human Geography, 8(3), 281-284. https://doi.org/10.1177/2043820618797747

© The Author(s) 2018. In this commentary, I examine how research into global financial networks can be used to develop understandings of how place and space shape global finance. Drawing on the growing regulatory interest in geofinance, I argue that... Read More about Placing the state within geofinance.

Reframing labour market mobility in global finance: Chinese elites in London’s financial district (2018)
Journal Article
Hall, S. (2019). Reframing labour market mobility in global finance: Chinese elites in London’s financial district. Urban Geography, 40(5), 699-718. https://doi.org/10.1080/02723638.2018.1472442

In this paper, I use the case of elite Chinese financial mobility to London’s financial district to argue that comparatively neglected forms of elite financial migration from beyond the Global North provide important insights into the changing geogra... Read More about Reframing labour market mobility in global finance: Chinese elites in London’s financial district.

‘Ground Zero’ of Brexit: London as an international financial centre (2018)
Journal Article
Hall, S., & Wójcik, D. (2021). ‘Ground Zero’ of Brexit: London as an international financial centre. Geoforum, 125, 195-196. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2018.02.002

This critical reviews section explores the implications of Brexit from a financial geography perspective in a number of different geographical settings. These range from the epicentre of Brexit in London's financial district, to its implications for... Read More about ‘Ground Zero’ of Brexit: London as an international financial centre.

Regulating the geographies of market making: offshore renminbi markets in London's international financial district (2017)
Journal Article
Hall, S. (2018). Regulating the geographies of market making: offshore renminbi markets in London's international financial district. Economic Geography, 94(3), 259-278. https://doi.org/10.1080/00130095.2017.1304806

In this paper, I develop a sympathetic critique of cultural economy approaches to market making, arguing that the spatial imaginations deployed in this work remain comparatively limited. Drawing on the emerging dialogue between cultural economy and h... Read More about Regulating the geographies of market making: offshore renminbi markets in London's international financial district.

London’s rise as an offshore RMB financial centre: state-finance relations and selective institutional adaptation (2017)
Journal Article
Töpfer, L., & Hall, S. (2018). London’s rise as an offshore RMB financial centre: state-finance relations and selective institutional adaptation. Regional Studies, 52(8), 1053-1064. https://doi.org/10.1080/00343404.2016.1275538

China’s currency, the Renminbi (RMB), is increasingly important in global financial markets, facilitated by the global expansion of offshore RMB centres. This paper examines London’s development as the first Western offshore RMB centre established in... Read More about London’s rise as an offshore RMB financial centre: state-finance relations and selective institutional adaptation.

Rethinking international financial centres through the politics of territory: Renminbi internationalisation in London’s financial district (2017)
Journal Article
Hall, S. (2017). Rethinking international financial centres through the politics of territory: Renminbi internationalisation in London’s financial district. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 44(4), 489-502. https://doi.org/10.1111/tran.12172

This paper revisits canonical thinking on international financial centres (IFCs) that understands them as being primarily sustained through: market liquidity; economies of competition and cooperation between financial and related professional service... Read More about Rethinking international financial centres through the politics of territory: Renminbi internationalisation in London’s financial district.

(Post)graduate Education Markets and the Formation of Mobile Transnational Economic Elites (2017)
Book Chapter
Hall, S. (2017). (Post)graduate Education Markets and the Formation of Mobile Transnational Economic Elites. In J. Glückler, E. Lazega, & I. Hammer (Eds.), Knowledge and Networks (103-116). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-45023-0_6

Undergraduate and postgraduate education has increasingly been framed by policymakers and employers in advanced economies as an important way of improving graduate employability and enhancing economic growth within knowledge-based economies. This is... Read More about (Post)graduate Education Markets and the Formation of Mobile Transnational Economic Elites.

Geographies of marketisation in English higher education: territorial and relational markets and the case of undergraduate student fees (2015)
Journal Article
Hall, S. (2015). Geographies of marketisation in English higher education: territorial and relational markets and the case of undergraduate student fees. Area, https://doi.org/10.1111/area.12216

In this paper, I use the case of the marketisation of higher education in England to contribute to the growing interest in placing markets, and processes of market making, more centrally within economic geographical research agendas. In particular, m... Read More about Geographies of marketisation in English higher education: territorial and relational markets and the case of undergraduate student fees.

The Globalization of Executive Search: Professional Services Strategy and Dynamics in the Contemporary World (2014)
Book
Beaverstock, J. V., Faulconbridge, J. R., & Hall, S. J. (2014). The Globalization of Executive Search: Professional Services Strategy and Dynamics in the Contemporary World. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315771427

Executive search, headhunting, is now one of the archetypal new knowledge intensive professional services, as well as a labor market intermediary bound up with globalization. In this book, the authors examine the key actors in the process of executiv... Read More about The Globalization of Executive Search: Professional Services Strategy and Dynamics in the Contemporary World.