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Regulating the Geographies of Market Making: Offshore Renminbi Markets in London’s International Financial District

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In this article, 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 article 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. Through an original case study of the making of offshore renminbi markets in London’s financial district, the analysis conceptualizes regulation as both a hitherto overlooked relational component of market making and as a set of practices that coconstitute 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 center. This has significant implications empirically, for the wider project of renminbi internationalization, and theoretically, in terms of understanding the geographies of market making.

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  • Sarah Hall, 2018. "Regulating the Geographies of Market Making: Offshore Renminbi Markets in London’s International Financial District," Economic Geography, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 94(3), pages 259-278, May.
  • Handle: RePEc:taf:recgxx:v:94:y:2018:i:3:p:259-278
    DOI: 10.1080/00130095.2017.1304806
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    1. Torik Holmes & Josi Fernandes & Teea Palo, 2021. "‘Spatio-market practices’: conceptualising the always spatial dimensions of market making practices," AMS Review, Springer;Academy of Marketing Science, vol. 11(3), pages 316-335, December.
    2. Daniel Haberly & Dariusz Wójcik, 2020. "The end of the great inversion: offshore national banks and the global financial crisis [European financial cross-border consolidation: at the crossroads in]," Journal of Economic Geography, Oxford University Press, vol. 20(6), pages 1263-1292.

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