There is a strong case that mortgage-backed securities were at the root of the 2007 – 09 financial crisis. Even though geographers have convincingly demonstrated that loan origination is strongly locally rooted and that the fallout from the subprime mortgage crisis clearly had spatially...

E<sc>ngelen</sc> E. and G<sc>lasmacher</sc> A. Multiple financial modernities. International financial centres, urban boosters and the Internet as the site of negotiations, <italic>Regional Studies</italic>. The 1990s and 2000s (the 'noughties') saw a large number of urban boosters trying to frame specific international financial...