ABSTRACT
This chapter contributes to debates on globalisation and local embeddedness by discussing these interrelationships in the context of financial services. Some accounts of financial services restructuring argue that globalisation has led to the ‘end of geography’, denoting the declining importance of spatial processes in patterns of financial production. In this interpretation, electronic technologies, innovation, financial market deregulation, and multinational bank conglomerates are the protagonists of hyper-mobile finance.
