Leaky data: How Wonga makes lending decisions
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
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
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
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
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
Alan Shipman on recent attempts to ‘nudge’ savers towards higher pensions contributions Read More
Inside and Outside Occupy Wall Street. New Tendencies in Economic Sociology
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
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?
Bill Maurer on the shift toward the use of the mobile phone as a financial channel, and a route to financial formalization Read More
