Leaky data: How Wonga makes lending decisions

20th May 2013

Joe Deville investigates how Wonga and other payday lenders are using unwittingly leaked online data in their credit assessments Read More

Observing Observers Observing Observers

11th March 2013

David Stark introduces three recent papers that observe observers observing others, including exploring how processes of valuation are shaped by an actor’s location in ‘attention networks’ Read More

The Economy of the Quota: The Financial Ecologies and Commercial Circuits of Retail Credit Cards in Santiago, Chile

6th December 2012

A report on preliminary research conducted by Jose Ossandon into how credit limits move between people and homes. Translated by Taylor Nelms Read More

Marketing Finance in the Aftermath of Crisis

4th September 2012

Taylor C. Nelms on the advertising discourses of banks in Ecuador more than ten years after financial crisis and dollarization Read More

Monetary tests: Banks, bankers, and customers

21st May 2012

Jeanne Lazarus on her recently published published book, which explores the struggles and tests that characterise our everyday relationships with banks Read More

You can’t Nudge a NEST without breaking some eggs

7th May 2012

Alan Shipman on recent attempts to ‘nudge’ savers towards higher pensions contributions Read More

Protesting zombies

Inside and Outside Occupy Wall Street. New Tendencies in Economic Sociology

5th March 2012

Ann-Christina Lange on the need to incorporate the materiality of (protesting) bodies in the analysis of the sociality of finance Read More

On NEST Eggs: Retirement, Reluctant Consumers and Distributed Agency

19th February 2012

Paul Langley explores how defined contribution pension plans continue to expose consumers to the whims of future financial uncertainties. Read More

How can you see money moving?

19th February 2012

Bill Maurer on the shift toward the use of the mobile phone as a financial channel, and a route to financial formalization Read More