Consumer Finance Research Methods Toolkit by Erin B. Taylor and Gawain Lynch

The CFRM Toolkit: Methods for understanding consumers in a changing world of finance

12th May 2016

Consumer finance globally is undergoing a process of rapid change. How can we adapt our research methods to understand changing consumer behaviour? The newly-launched CFRM Toolkit reviews cutting-edge methods in consumer finance research. Read More

On Bowie theory and Bowie bonds

25th January 2016

Andrew Leyshon on David Bowie’s smart take on the major changes to the industry his career coincided with Read More

When Payments Infrastructure Turns Political: The 2015 Greek Financial Crisis Through Social Lenses

7th October 2015

By Bernardo Bátiz-Lazo, Leonidas Efthymiou and Sophia Michael  “Underneath most of these new [fintech] launches, including Apple payments, you find […]

The GAY-TM: How to make a splash with cash dispensers

11th August 2015

Bernardo Batiz-Lazo looks at the ‘GAY-TM’ campaign at this year’s Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras, which transformed usually dull and unnoticed ATMs into something much more colourful and visible Read More

Mobile money agent in Haiti. Photo by Erin B. Taylor

Mobile money aesthetics: Text, display, and the cultural logics of concealment

23rd March 2015

Erin Taylor looks at the promises and practicalities of mobile money, drawing on a chapter published in The Routledge Companion to Mobile Media (2014) Read More

Moments of Valuation

3rd March 2015

David Stark introduces Moments of Valuation, a new book he has co-edited with Ariane Berthoin Antal, and Michael Hutter and asks: how is value performed? Read More