The turn of the twenty-first century saw the re-emergence of debates about thereconfiguration of European financial geographies and the role of stockexchange mergers in this process. There has been, however, no systematicattempt to date to analyse such changes. This paper proposes a...

Traditionally, financial centres were held together be the need to be located in the proximity of physical exchanges. However, given the rise of information and communication technologies these quot;anchorsquot; have increasingly been lifted, with telling consequences for second-tier financial...