Sarah Hall: Respatialising Finance

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Hall, Sarah (Professor of economic geography), author.

Title: Respatialising finance: power, politics and offshore renminbi market making in London / Sarah Hall.

Description: Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, 2021. | Includes bibliographical references and index.

Identifiers: LCCN 2020049759 (print) | LCCN 2020049760 (ebook) | ISBN 9781119385486 (hardback) | ISBN 9781119386049 (paperback) | ISBN 9781119386001 (pdf) | ISBN 9781119385547 (epub) | ISBN 9781119386018 (ebook)

Subjects: LCSH: Renminbi. | Renminbi—England—London. | Finance—China.

Classification: LCC HG1285 .H33 2021 (print) | LCC HG1285 (ebook) | DDC 332.4/50941—dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020049759

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1 Cover

2 Series page

3 Title page

4 Copyright

5 List of Figures

6 List of Tables

7 List of Abbreviations

8 Series Editors’ Preface

9 Acknowledgements

10 Chapter 1: Global Monetary Transformation and Respatialising the Geographies of Finance

11 Part I: Theorising Changing Monetary and Financial Geographies Chapter 2: thinking geographically about states, power and politics in the global monetary system Chapter 3: thinking geographically about the international financial system

12 Part II: The Geographies of RMB Internationalisation in London Chapter 4: respatialising research in international financial centres Chapter 5: london’s financial centre as a territorial fix within rmb internationalisation Chapter 6: chinese financial labour markets in london’s financial centre Chapter 7: respatialising financial regulation through offshore rmb market making in london Chapter 8: RMB Internationalisation in Retrospect and Prospect: For Revitalised Geographies of Money and Finance

13 Index

14 End User License Agreement

1 Chapter 4Figure 4.1 Monetary form, geographical reach and policy basis of RMB internation...

2 Chapter 5Figure 5.1 Renminbi business of UK monetary financial institutions (2015–...Figure 5.2 RMB foreign exchange daily turnover in London by instrument (2015...Figure 5.3 Timeline of London’s development as an offshore RMB centre

3 Chapter 6Figure 6.1 National insurance registrations of Chinese nationals by London borou...Figure 6.2 Location of Chinese financial and related professional service firms ...

1 Chapter 4Table 4.1 Attributes of leading offshore RMB centres.Table 4.2 List of interviewees.

2 Chapter 5Table 5.1 Factors accounting for the identification of London as the first Weste...

3 Chapter 6Table 6.1 Big four Chinese commercial state-owned banks operating in London, by ...

4 Chapter 7Table 7.1 RQFII licences issued in London 2013–2014 (RMBbn).Table 7.2 Allocated and used RQFII quotas by country, March 2020 (US$bn).

1 Cover

2 Series page

3 Title page

4 Copyright

5 Table of Contents

6 List of Figures

7 List of Tables

8 List of Abbreviations

9 Series Editors’ Preface

10 Acknowledgements

11 Begin Reading

12 Index

13 End User License Agreement

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