Regulating the geographies of market making: offshore renminbi markets in London's international financial district

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 heterodox political economy approaches to money and...

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Main Author: Hall, Sarah
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Published: Wiley 2017
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description 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 heterodox political economy approaches to money and finance, the paper argues that a focus on regulation provides a valuable way of developing new understandings of the geographies of market making beyond cultural economy’s extant reading of space as context, particularly in the form of the financial trading room. Drawing on an original case study of the marking of offshore renminbi markets in London’s financial district, the analysis conceptualises regulation as both a hitherto overlooked relational component of market making and as a set of practices that co-constitute the territoriality of markets. I demonstrate how regulatory changes made in Beijing and London are important in understanding both the growth and potential limitations of London as an offshore renminbi centre. This has significant implications empirically, for the wider project of renminbi internationalisation and theoretically, in terms of understanding the geographies of market making.
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spelling nottingham-405222020-05-04T18:32:03Z https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/40522/ Regulating the geographies of market making: offshore renminbi markets in London's international financial district Hall, Sarah 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 heterodox political economy approaches to money and finance, the paper argues that a focus on regulation provides a valuable way of developing new understandings of the geographies of market making beyond cultural economy’s extant reading of space as context, particularly in the form of the financial trading room. Drawing on an original case study of the marking of offshore renminbi markets in London’s financial district, the analysis conceptualises regulation as both a hitherto overlooked relational component of market making and as a set of practices that co-constitute the territoriality of markets. I demonstrate how regulatory changes made in Beijing and London are important in understanding both the growth and potential limitations of London as an offshore renminbi centre. This has significant implications empirically, for the wider project of renminbi internationalisation and theoretically, in terms of understanding the geographies of market making. Wiley 2017-01-02 Article PeerReviewed Hall, Sarah (2017) Regulating the geographies of market making: offshore renminbi markets in London's international financial district. Economic Geography . ISSN 1944-8287 (In Press) Marketisation regulation cultural economy City of London RMB internationalisation RQFII offshore finance
spellingShingle Marketisation
regulation
cultural economy
City of London
RMB internationalisation
RQFII
offshore finance
Hall, Sarah
Regulating the geographies of market making: offshore renminbi markets in London's international financial district
title Regulating the geographies of market making: offshore renminbi markets in London's international financial district
title_full Regulating the geographies of market making: offshore renminbi markets in London's international financial district
title_fullStr Regulating the geographies of market making: offshore renminbi markets in London's international financial district
title_full_unstemmed Regulating the geographies of market making: offshore renminbi markets in London's international financial district
title_short Regulating the geographies of market making: offshore renminbi markets in London's international financial district
title_sort regulating the geographies of market making: offshore renminbi markets in london's international financial district
topic Marketisation
regulation
cultural economy
City of London
RMB internationalisation
RQFII
offshore finance
url https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/40522/