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| Title |
Strategic coupling between finance, technology and the state: Cultivating a Fintech ecosystem for incumbent finance
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| Published in |
Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space, November 2019
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| DOI | 10.1177/0308518x19887967 |
| Authors |
Reijer Hendrikse, Michiel van Meeteren, David Bassens |
| Abstract |
The rise of Fintech challenges established financial centres and incumbent financial institutions to rethink their strategies to remain obligatory passage points in the age of digitizing finance. To appreciate these changes, it isimportantto maintain theoretical interchange between developments in financial geography and economic geography, its parent discipline. In this paper, we argue that the ways in which evolutionary economic geography impacts strategic coupling in global financial networks are crucial to grasp tomorrow’s geographies of Fintech. Through an in-depth examination of Brussels, we analyze the potential of Fintech opening a window of locational opportunity in financial services. Belgium has put together a strategy to seize this window by leveraging its politically neutral image and Brussels’ existing niche in financial collaboration and infrastructural plumbing. The latter status is exemplified by the presence of global players SWIFT and Euroclear. We analyze how Belgian entrepreneurs and politicians assess Brussels’ locational resources, and strategically couple big financial institutions with small tech startups in order to cultivate a Fintech ecosystem in the service of incumbent finance, constituting a FinTech-State triangle. As such, we document and analyze how the coalescence of finance and technology offers new opportunities for second-tier financial centres, whilst highlighting the difficulties in reaping these in practice. |
X Demographics
The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 16 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United Kingdom | 5 | 31% |
| Netherlands | 2 | 13% |
| Korea, Republic of | 1 | 6% |
| Costa Rica | 1 | 6% |
| Denmark | 1 | 6% |
| Belgium | 1 | 6% |
| Unknown | 5 | 31% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 9 | 56% |
| Scientists | 6 | 38% |
| Science communicators (journalists, bloggers, editors) | 1 | 6% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 211 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Unknown | 211 | 100% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 23 | 11% |
| Lecturer | 16 | 8% |
| Researcher | 16 | 8% |
| Student > Master | 14 | 7% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 14 | 7% |
| Other | 34 | 16% |
| Unknown | 94 | 45% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Business, Management and Accounting | 42 | 20% |
| Economics, Econometrics and Finance | 27 | 13% |
| Computer Science | 11 | 5% |
| Social Sciences | 11 | 5% |
| Arts and Humanities | 4 | 2% |
| Other | 15 | 7% |
| Unknown | 101 | 48% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 9. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 15 February 2023.
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