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Cheng Fang

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Financial geographer. Postdoc @VUB.

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Geography at Durham @geogdurham.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
New article, “Towards Inclusive AI Systems in Cities" published in Dialogues in Urban Research by our PhD student Siewying Shee: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... It argues that inclusion means being able to shape, contest and revise AI systems over time.
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Finance and Society @finandsoc.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Out now: The first of two themed special issues. Part 1 opens with an agenda-setting article on technofinance by the editors and a key essay by @paullangley.bsky.social and @andrewleyshon.bsky.social on the disappearance of fintech. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Finance and Society: Volume 12 - When finance becomes tech, Part I | Cambridge Core
Cambridge Core - Finance and Society - Volume 12 - When finance becomes tech, Part I
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Paul Langley @paullangley.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
Co-authored with @andrewleyshon.bsky.social for a forthcoming special issue of @finandsoc.bsky.social, this essay takes Elon Musk's planned FinTech makeover of X as a provocation for a critical analysis of so-called 'embedded finance' and the evolution of FinTech www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Embedded finance and FinTech disappearance | Finance and Society | Cambridge Core
Embedded finance and FinTech disappearance
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Review of International Political Economy @ripejournal.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
Governing through guesstimates: mock precision in international organisations, by Lukas Linsi, Seiki Tanaka, Francesco Giumelli, & @lenseabrooke.bsky.social
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Governing through guesstimates: mock precision in international organisations
International organisations (IOs) collect and disseminate a wide array of statistics. In many cases, the phenomena these statistics seek to quantify defy precise measurement. Hard-to-measure statis...
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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 08/09/2025
“Rightwing populists all over Europe want to destroy the ability of the UK and the EU to regulate large tech platforms — a move that might threaten their disinformation campaigns with genuine political debate.” They use disingenuous claims of censorship to protect the tech companies.
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Protecting Big Tech, not free speech
Trump and Farage are using censorship as a cloak for disinformation
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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 02/09/2025
UK digital banks Revolut and Starling are weighing acquisitions of nationally chartered banks in the US, which would allow them to be granted American banking licences and lend across all 50 states on.ft.com/3Vzoy4Z
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Jack Taggart @jacktaggart.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
📣 New article w/ @iliasalami.bsky.social & @tomchodor.bsky.social on the return of industrial policy globally @globalpolicy.bsky.social. Does this signal a 'New Washington Consensus'? And does the return of industrial policy 'rebuild the ladder' of economic development? 🔗➡️ tinyurl.com/yk2wvttc 1/12
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Anissa Bougrea @anissabougrea.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
🚨New article out with @mattvermeir.bsky.social in @compchange.bsky.social: "Rolling out the Wall Street Consensus? MDBs & the Trilemma of Private Capital Mobilization" We examine why MDBs are failing to deliver on the promise of "mobilizing trillions" for the SDGs👇 Here:
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Rolling out the Wall Street Consensus? Multilateral development banks and the trilemma of private capital mobilization - Anissa Bougrea, Mattias Vermeiren, 2025
This article offers the first comprehensive account of the challenges Multilateral Development Banks (MDBs) face in implementing the Wall Street Consensus, a fi...
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Abe Newman @abenewman.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
1/Like Big Tech, US built platform infrastructures for the world. Now, it is squeezing those platforms for power. In short term, dependence is hard to break. In long term, US risks it all. New w/@himself.bsky.social in @wired.com on the enshittification of US power. www.wired.com/story/enshit...
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The Enshittification of American Power
First Google and Facebook, then the world. Under Trump 2.0, US statecraft is starting to mimic the worst tendencies of Big Tech.
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Dan Cohen @dancohen.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
New: 'Follow the liquidity: Monetary policy, spatial inequality and the Bank of Canada's emergency COVID-19 corporate debt programs.' We trace the BoC's corporate debt purchases spatially uneven effects and its bolstering of a financialized status quo. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Follow the liquidity: Monetary policy, spatial inequality and the Bank of Canada's emergency COVID-19 corporate debt programs
In a financial crisis, maintaining liquidity in the economy is a central concern of monetary policymakers seeking to stave off frozen financial market…
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Finance & Space @financeandspace.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
🚨New in Finance & Space 🚨 Eric Helleiner delivers a tour de force analysis of international finance amid polycrisis, encompassing: 🌍 Pandemic 🚩 Geopolitical conflict 🔥 Climate crisis 💱 Geoeconomic fragmentation 💣 Impending financial crisis? Read it here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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International finance and the global polycrisis
It has become commonplace to suggest that we are living through a kind of ‘global polycrisis’. This article shows how the mobilisation of international finance has been at the core of political res...
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Cheng Fang @fangcheng0819.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
Now approaching State…
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Cominsitu @cominsitu.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
now reading, by @iliasalami.bsky.social et al. www.tni.org/en/publicati...
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Hannes Baumann @hannesbaumann.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
New article where I examine Gulf deposits to other Arab states' central banks as monetary statecraft in the service of counter-revolution @ripejournal.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Monetary statecraft in the service of counter-revolution: Gulf monarchies’ deposits to Arab states’ central banks 1998–2022
Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) monarchies have deposited several tens of billions of dollars in other Arab states’ central banks since 2011 to prop up recipients’ currencies. GCC currencies do not ...
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reijer hendrikse @reijer.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
NEW PUBLICATION 'Capitalising on conjunctures: Tesla's ups and downs in financialised capitalism' With Tobias Klinge and Stefan Ouma (@econgeo.bsky.social), we analyze the driving forces behind Elon Musk's wealth. Open access with @finandsoc.bsky.social here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Stefan Ouma @econgeo.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
Money flows like mercury - spatially & socially! 'Silicon Savannah' is often hailed as start-up success story. Scrutinizing the demographics of VC flows suggests a highly uneven social geography of start-up money. We offer some numbers & great visuals on this. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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To whom does the money go? Mapping the uneven financial geographies of venture capital in ‘Silicon Savannah’, Kenya
Motivated by the view that capital flows in the venture capital industry are not just mediated by meritocratic attributes of the founders but also by raced, gendered and classed social relations wi...
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Florence Dafe @florencedafe.bsky.social · 21/12/2024
New paper out with Socio-Economic Review 🎉 Varieties of capitalism and patient capital in developing and emerging economies: evidence from Kenya academic.oup.com/ser/advance-...
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Varieties of capitalism and patient capital in developing and emerging economies: evidence from Kenya
Abstract. Patient capital (PC) has gained traction in discussions about how finance can better serve society. While PC is a central concept in comparative
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