Method

Themes & sources

A weekly sweep of research, news and grey literature on the postcolonial politics of financial centres in the Global South. This page lists everything the weekly sweep looks for. It is generated from the project's sweep profile, so it always matches what actually runs.

How items are chosen

Harvest. Scholarly metadata (OpenAlex), the World Bank documents database, a global news index (GDELT, restricted to the outlets listed below), publisher and institutional RSS feeds, watched publication pages, and alert emails (Bloomberg, Google Scholar, Google Alerts). Only titles, links, dates and abstracts are collected.
De-duplicate. Preprint, repository and journal versions of the same work are merged, keeping the journal version. Syndicated copies of a news story are clustered, keeping the best outlet. Anything shown in an earlier week is not shown again.
Gate. News and research must mention a finance term and either a case-study city or institution plus a theme term, or two theme terms. Reports need one city or theme term. Titles with negative keywords are dropped.
Venue check. Journals are graded by OpenAlex h-index. Watched journals are trusted, deny-listed venues are dropped, and low-signal venues are flagged and never pre-selected.
Annotate. Claude rates relevance (0–3) against the project brief and scholarly substance (0–2), assigns cities and themes, and drafts a one-line note.
Review. A team member ticks what to publish. News is only pre-selected at relevance 3.
From the archive. Older works (10+ years) cited by this week's new research.

Relevance gate

Finance terms (32)

financefinancialfinancièrefinancierfinanciersbanquebanquesbancobancosbolsamarché financiermercado financeiroinvestmentinvestimentoinversiónbankstock exchangeboursebonddebtcapital marketsecuritiesinvestorcreditcurrencymonetaryratingfintechfinancesfinançasfinancieromercado de valores

Negative keywords (title only)

stock to buystocks to buyshares riseshares fallshares jumpsensex todaynifty todaymarket livelive updatesstock price todayshare price targetq1 resultsq2 resultsq3 resultsq4 resultsquarterly resultsdividend announcementhoroscopefootballcricket

Context places

kigalilagosaccracairodubaidifcsingaporehong kongastanaaifclondonnew yorkparisshanghai

Themes 17

Financial subordination & dependency

International financial subordination (IFS), subordinate financialization, currency hierarchy, dependency, the 'Wall Street Consensus', de-risking.

financial subordinationsubordinate financializationsubordinated financialisationsubordinate financialisationcurrency hierarchymonetary hierarchywall street consensusde-risking statederiskingdependency theoryperipheral financializationperipheral financialisationemerging market financializationmonetary sovereigntyfinancial sovereigntysouveraineté monétairedependência financeira

Southern financial centres

International/regional financial centres, hubs, offshore jurisdictions, GFCI rankings, financial-centre strategies.

financial centrefinancial centerinternational financial centreinternational financial centerfinancial hubglobal financial centres indexgfcioffshore financialplace financièrecentro financeirocentro financierotrung tâm tài chính

South–South & North–South networks

Regional market integration, exchange linkages, cross-border investment, BRICS/South–South finance, professional networks and conferences.

south-southsouth–southcross-listingcross listingexchange linkageafrican exchanges linkageregional integrationcapital market integrationbrics banknew development bankafreximbankpapsslocal currency settlementde-dollarizationde-dollarisationdédollarisation

Devices of valuation

Credit ratings, benchmarks and indices, index inclusion/reclassification, yield curves, pricing models, risk metrics, ESG scores.

credit ratingsovereign ratingrating agencyafrican credit rating agencyafcradowngradeindex inclusionfrontier marketemerging market indexmsciftse russellgbi-embenchmark indexyield curvenotation souveraineagence de notationclassificação de riscosubnational ratingperception premium

Devices of integration

Market infrastructure promoting liquidity and cross-border trust: depositories, trading and settlement platforms, market linkages, dual listings, depositary receipts, fund passports, primary dealers.

cross-listingcross listingdual listingdual-listedmarket linkageexchange linkagecentral securities depositorysecurities depositoryclearing and settlementsettlement systemtrading platformmarket makerprimary dealerdepositary receiptexchange-traded funddemutualisationdemutualizationfund passportcapital market developmentcapital markets developmentbond market developmentlisting rulesinterconnexion boursièreintegração de mercados

Devices of regulation

Regulatory innovations: capital markets regulators, sandboxes, FATF listing, macroprudential rules, disclosure and transparency regimes.

regulatory sandboxfatfgrey listgray listgreylistcapital markets authoritysecurities regulatormacroprudentialbasel iiidisclosure rulesfinancial regulationrégulation financière

Sovereign & domestic debt

Sovereign debt, Eurobonds, domestic/local-currency debt markets, debt restructuring, foreign vs domestic holders.

sovereign debteurobondlocal currency debtdomestic debtgovernment securitiestreasury billsdebt restructuringcommon frameworkdebt crisisbond issuancedette souverainedívida públicasovereign defaultnon-resident holdingsforeign holdings

Colonial & postcolonial financial histories

Colonial banking, decolonisation and finance, currency boards, CFA franc, histories of exchanges and central banks.

colonial bankcolonial financedecolonizationdecolonisationpostcolonialcurrency boardcfa francfranc cfaeco currencyfinancial historyimperial financedecolonising financedecolonizing financepopular shareholding

Financial professionals & institutions

Bankers, asset managers, pension funds, domestic institutional investors, investment banks, private equity, the careers and training of financiers.

asset managerasset managementpension fundinstitutional investorprivate equityinvestment bankfund managerbankersfinancierscfa institutefonds de pensionafrica financial summitafrica ceo forumafrica debt forumglobal financial centresfinancial centre foruminvestment summitbankers associationassociation of stock exchangesafrican securities exchanges association

Development, blended & green finance

DFIs, blended finance, impact investing, green/sustainable bonds, carbon markets, climate finance as financial-sector deepening.

blended financeimpact investingdevelopment finance institutiongreen bondsustainability-linkedsocial bondcarbon marketcarbon creditclimate financefinancial sector deepeningfsd africafinance in commonfinancial deepeningde-risking

Fintech & digital payments

Mobile money, fast payment systems, digital public infrastructure, CBDCs, stablecoins — where they reshape financial centres or sovereignty.

mobile moneym-pesafintechdigital public infrastructureupipixcbdccentral bank digital currencystablecoininstant payment

Urban & real-estate finance

Municipal finance and bonds, REITs, housing finance, land-based finance, city-level financial politics.

municipal bondmunicipal financereitreal estate investment trusthousing financeland value captureurban financeobligations municipales

Gulf capital & centres

Gulf sovereign funds, banks and financial centres (DIFC, ADGM, QFC) as investors in, partners of, or models for Southern centres.

difcdubai international financial centreadgmabu dhabi global marketqatar financial centregulf investorsgulf capitalmubadalaadqabu dhabi investment authorityqatar investment authoritypublic investment fundemirati investmentsaudi investment

Chinese finance

Chinese lending and investment, renminbi internationalisation, panda bonds, Belt and Road finance, and Chinese payment infrastructure.

belt and roadpanda bondrenminbiyuan clearingrmb settlementcipschina development bankexport-import bank of chinachina eximchinese loanschinese lendingdebt-trap

Islamic finance

Sukuk, Islamic banking and Sharia-compliant instruments as devices of market deepening (notably Casablanca, Nairobi, Port Louis).

sukukislamic financeislamic bankingislamic banksharia-compliantshariah-compliantparticipative bankbanque participativetakaful

State capital & parastatals

Sovereign wealth funds, state-owned enterprises and parastatals in capital markets: privatisations, public listings, state stakes, development banks.

sovereign wealth fundfonds souverainstate-owned enterprisestate owned enterpriseparastatalprivatisationprivatizationprivatizaçãogovernment stakestate stakenational development bankpublic investment corporationcaisse de dépôt

IMF & multilateral programmes

IMF programmes, reviews and conditionality; World Bank and AfDB policy lending; G20 debt frameworks, where they shape financial-sector policy.

imf programmeimf programextended credit facilityextended fund facilitystaff-level agreementarticle ivimf bailoutimf reviewdevelopment policy operationconditionality

Case-study cities 11

City	Lead	Names & institutions matched
São Paulo Brazil · Latin America	PR1	sao paulosão paulofaria limab3bovespabrazilian stock exchangecvm brazilbanco central do brasilbrazil's central bankbrazilian bank
Santiago Chile · Latin America	PI (Mizes)	santiago stock exchangebolsa de santiagobolsa de comercio de santiagochile's pensionchilean pensionafp chilecmf chilebanco central de chilechile's central banknuam
Montevideo Uruguay · Latin America	PR1	montevideobolsa de valores de montevideobanco central del uruguayuruguayan bonduruguay's central bank
Casablanca Morocco · Africa	PR2	casablanca finance citycasablanca stock exchangebourse de casablancaammcbank al-maghribmorocco's central bankcfc casablanca
Abidjan Côte d'Ivoire · Africa	PI (Mizes)	abidjanbrvmbceaouemoawaemuumoa-titresamf-umoawest african stock exchangebourse régionale des valeurs mobilièrescfa francfranc cfa
Nairobi Kenya · Africa	AR1 (Donovan)	nairobinairobi securities exchangenairobi international financial centrenifccapital markets authority kenyacentral bank of kenyacbkkenya's eurobondkenyan banksafaricomm-pesa
Johannesburg South Africa · Africa	AR2 (Cirolia)	johannesburgjsejohannesburg stock exchangesouth african reserve banksarbfscaa2xsandton
Port Louis Mauritius · Africa / Indian Ocean	PR2	port louisstock exchange of mauritiusfinancial services commission mauritiusfsc mauritiusbank of mauritiusglobal business licencemauritius international financial centremauritius financial centremauritian offshore
Mumbai (Bombay) India · South Asia	AR3 (Trisal)	mumbaibombaybombay stock exchangenational stock exchange of indiasebireserve bank of indiarbigift citydalal street
Bangkok Thailand · Southeast Asia	PR3	bangkokstock exchange of thailandset indexbank of thailandthai secthailand's securities
Ho Chi Minh City Vietnam · Southeast Asia	PR3	ho chi minh citysaigonho chi minh stock exchangevietnam international financial centrevietnam international financial centerstate bank of vietnamstate securities commission of vietnamvn-indexvietnam's stock market

Scholarly searches 71

financial subordination
subordinate financialization
financial centre Africa
financial center Global South
stock exchange Africa
capital market development Africa
credit rating Africa
sovereign debt Africa
local currency bond market
financial geography Global South
global financial networks
social studies of finance postcolonial
market devices finance
financialization Global South
financialisation Latin America
financialization Brazil
Chile pension funds financialization
Vietnam stock market
Thailand capital market
India financial markets history
Mauritius offshore finance
Casablanca Finance City
CFA franc
monetary sovereignty Africa
mobile money Kenya
de-risking development finance
Wall Street Consensus
emerging markets investors
colonial banking history
decolonization finance
sukuk capital market
Gulf capital Africa investment
Chinese lending Africa finance
sovereign wealth fund Africa
state-owned enterprise privatisation stock exchange
financial professionals ethnography
credit rating agencies Global South
place financière Afrique
marchés financiers Afrique
notation financière souveraine Afrique
bourse régionale BRVM
souveraineté monétaire franc CFA
financeirização Brasil
mercado de capitais Brasil história
financiarización América Latina
fondos de pensiones Chile financiarización
monetary sovereignty
currency hierarchy
sovereign default Africa
domestic debt market
foreign holdings government bonds emerging markets
sovereign credit rating
credit rating agencies Africa
subnational credit rating
municipal bonds Africa
bond index inclusion emerging markets
yield curve emerging markets
cross-listing stock exchanges
capital market integration
financial deepening
capital market development
international financial centre
Global Financial Centres Index
offshore financial centre
decolonizing finance
popular shareholding
retail investors emerging markets
financial professionals Africa
South-South finance
impact investing
securitization housing finance

Report searches 28

capital market development
stock exchange
financial centre
financial sector deepening
local currency bond market
sovereign debt restructuring
credit rating
pension fund investment
state-owned enterprises
sukuk
financial market infrastructure
debt management
municipal finance
subnational debt
blended finance
impact investing
domestic debt market
housing finance
anti-money laundering
capital market integration
offshore financial centre
financial deepening
subnational finance
municipal bonds
cross-listing
FATF grey list
de-risking
domestic resource mobilization

News searches 38

"financial centre" Africa
"financial center" Africa
"Nairobi International Financial Centre"
("Nairobi Securities Exchange" OR "Capital Markets Authority") Kenya
"Casablanca Finance City"
(BRVM OR "West African stock exchange")
("Stock Exchange of Mauritius" OR "Mauritius financial centre" OR "Mauritius International Financial Centre")
"Johannesburg Stock Exchange" (listing OR delisting OR reform)
("GIFT City" OR "Mumbai financial centre" OR "Mumbai financial hub")
("Vietnam International Financial Centre" OR "Vietnam International Financial Center")
"Stock Exchange of Thailand" (reform OR regulation OR listing)
"African Credit Rating Agency"
"African Exchanges Linkage"
(MSCI OR "FTSE Russell") ("frontier market" OR reclassification OR upgrade) (Vietnam OR Kenya OR Morocco OR Nigeria OR Egypt OR India OR Brazil OR Chile)
Eurobond (Kenya OR Nigeria OR Egypt OR Ivory OR Morocco OR "South Africa")
"local currency" bond market Africa
"international financial centre" ("Global South" OR emerging OR Africa OR Asia)
"place financière" (Abidjan OR Casablanca OR Maurice)
BRVM "marché financier"
("franc CFA" OR UEMOA) monnaie
"centro financeiro" ("São Paulo" OR "Faria Lima")
"mercado de capitais" regulação Brasil
("Bolsa de Santiago" OR nuam) integración
("Bolsa de Valores de Montevideo" OR "mercado de capitales") Uruguay
("Africa Financial Summit" OR "Africa CEO Forum" OR "Africa Debt Forum")
sukuk (Morocco OR Kenya OR Nigeria OR Senegal OR "Ivory Coast" OR Mauritius)
(Mubadala OR ADQ OR "Qatar Investment Authority" OR "Abu Dhabi") Africa (bank OR exchange OR bond OR stake)
("panda bond" OR renminbi OR yuan) (Africa OR Kenya OR Egypt OR Nigeria OR Brazil)
("sovereign wealth fund") (Kenya OR Nigeria OR Morocco OR Senegal OR "South Africa" OR Vietnam OR Thailand)
(privatisation OR privatization OR IPO) (Safaricom OR "Kenya Pipeline" OR KenGen OR "state-owned") Nairobi
"IMF" ("staff-level agreement" OR "extended credit facility") (Kenya OR Ghana OR Egypt OR "Côte d'Ivoire" OR Senegal OR Zambia)
("sovereign credit rating" OR "sovereign rating") (Africa OR Kenya OR Nigeria OR Ghana OR Morocco OR Senegal)
("debt restructuring" OR "sovereign default") (Ghana OR Zambia OR Kenya OR Ethiopia OR Senegal)
("non-resident holdings" OR "foreign holdings") ("government securities" OR "local currency bonds")
("financial deepening" OR "capital market deepening")
("municipal bond" OR "subnational credit rating") (Africa OR Senegal OR Kenya OR "South Africa" OR Morocco)
("Global Financial Centres Index" OR GFCI)
FATF ("grey list" OR "gray list") (Kenya OR Nigeria OR "South Africa" OR Senegal OR Morocco OR Mauritius OR Vietnam)

Watched authors 28

J. Christopher MizesKevin P. DonovanLiza Rose CiroliaNishita TrisalIlias AlamiIngrid Harvold KvangravenKai KoddenbrockAnnina KaltenbrunnerBruno BonizziJeff PowellCarolina AlvesDaniela GaborDariusz WójcikDan HaberlyDavid BassensManuel B. AalbersRodrigo FernandezKaren P. Y. LaiHannah AppelStefan OumaNick BernardsNdongo Samba SyllaEwa KarwowskiLena RethelAndrea PollioMichael SoenerEmma ParkSarah Bracking

Watched report series

IMF Working PapersIMF Staff Country ReportsSelected Issues PapersDepartmental PapersBIS Working PapersBIS Quarterly ReviewPolicy Research Working PapersWorking Paper Series (African Development Bank)

Watched journals 37

Finance and SpaceReview of International Political EconomyNew Political EconomyEconomy and SocietyEnvironment and Planning A: Economy and SpaceAntipodeAfricaReview of African Political EconomyDevelopment and ChangeSocio-Economic ReviewValuation StudiesJournal of Cultural EconomyInternational Journal of Urban and Regional ResearchCompetition & ChangeJournal of Economic GeographyEconomic AnthropologyFinance and SocietyJournal of Modern African StudiesAfrican AffairsGeoforumTransactions of the Institute of British GeographersPolitique africaineJournal of Eastern African StudiesLatin American PerspectivesJournal of Contemporary AsiaBusiness History ReviewEnterprise & SocietyCahiers d'études africainesRevue Tiers MondeCritique internationaleRevue de la régulationAfrique contemporaineBrazilian Journal of Political EconomyJournal of Latin American StudiesJournal of Southeast Asian StudiesModern Asian StudiesAfrican Studies Review

Sources

New research

OpenAlex — keyword queries
OpenAlex — watched journals
OpenAlex — watched authors
Google Scholar alerts

News

GDELT global news search
GDELT — Bloomberg
Bloomberg alerts & newsletters
Google Alerts (email)
The Africa Report
Jeune Afrique — Économie
Mint — Economy
VnExpress International — Business
Valor Econômico
FT — Emerging markets
Bloomberg — Markets (public feed)

Reports & grey literature

World Bank Documents & Reports
OpenAlex — reports
OpenAlex — IFI working-paper series
OpenAlex — watched institutions
Central Bank of Kenya
BCEAO publications
AMMC (Maroc)
South African Reserve Bank
FSC Mauritius communiqués
RBI press releases
BIS — FSI publications
BIS — central bank speeches
Bretton Woods Project
Eurodad
Debt Justice
OMFIF
FSD Africa (RSS)
Boston University GDP Center
AfronomicsLaw
Phenomenal World
Developing Economics
ROAPE blog
LSE Africa at LSE

From the archive

OpenAlex citation trail

News outlets allowed from the global index (60)

bloomberg.comft.comreuters.comeconomist.comwsj.comasia.nikkei.comsemafor.comglobalcapital.comeuromoney.comomfif.orgrestofworld.orgdevex.comtheconversation.comtheafricareport.comafrican.businessjeuneafrique.comecofinagency.comagenceecofin.comfinancialafrik.comrfi.frlemonde.frqz.comallafrica.combusinessdailyafrica.comtheeastafrican.co.kenation.africathe-star.co.kekenyanwallstreet.comcapitalfm.co.kesikafinance.combusinessday.ngpremiumtimesng.commedias24.comleseco.male360.malavieeco.combusinesslive.co.zadailymaverick.co.zamoneyweb.co.zanews24.comlexpress.mudefimedia.infolemauricien.comlivemint.comeconomictimes.indiatimes.combusiness-standard.comthehindubusinessline.combangkokpost.comnationthailand.come.vnexpress.nettheinvestor.vnvir.com.vnvietnamnews.vnvalor.globo.comfolha.uol.com.brestadao.com.brdf.cllatercera.comelobservador.com.uyelpais.com.uy

Team

Name	Role	Focus
J. Christopher Mizes	PI	Abidjan, Santiago, credit ratings (West Africa), financial politics
Kevin P. Donovan	AR1	Nairobi, Kenya, East Africa, monetary theory, parastatals & state capital, Safaricom / M-Pesa, Central Bank of Kenya, Kenyan sovereign debt
Liza Rose Cirolia	AR2	Johannesburg, urban finance, municipal finance
Nishita Trisal	AR3	Mumbai, India
PR1 (TBC)	Postdoc	São Paulo, Montevideo
PR2 (TBC)	Postdoc	Casablanca, Port Louis
PR3 (TBC)	Postdoc	Bangkok, Ho Chi Minh City

Team members can suggest an item or update their research focus using the forms in the project's GitHub repository (Issues → New issue). New focus areas feed into the following week's sweep.