Acknowledgments

This volume came to fruition due to the efforts and support of many individuals and institutions, to whom we are deeply grateful for your support, collaboration, and engagement that were all instrumental in bringing this volume to completion.

First and foremost, we are grateful to the entire team at Cambridge University Press who supported this project with dedication from inception to publication process. Thank you Sable, Robert, Subathra, Vigneswaran, and many more who form the fantastic infrastructure that is CUP.

Second, Elsa Müller and the student assistants, Nils Jansen, Tanya Lee Nathalia, were invaluable and indispensable throughout this project. Special thanks also go to Regina List for her excellent editing services.

Third, are the libraries that provided the funding to make this volume open access publication. We are grateful to the library of Justus-Liebig-University Giessen, the library of Goethe-University Frankfurt, and the library of the University of Groningen. We are also grateful to the Collaborative Research Centre 138 Dynamics of Security for its financial support during the production process.

Fourth, is our sincere thanks to the contributing authors for their invaluable work and commitment to the project over multiple years. Many of the chapters were presented and discussed initially at the University of Amsterdam in 2022 during the Mini-Conference “Financial Infrastructures: From Colonial Trajectories to Global Digital Transformations.” We thank the UvA and Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics (SASE) for support in hosting that event. We also thank the International Studies Association (ISA) and Chris Clarke for invaluable feedback at an ISA annual conference panel held in Montreal 2023, as well as the Finance and Society Network for enabling two panels at the 2023 FSN conference in Brussels.

Last but never least, are heartfelt thanks to our families for supporting us during the years, and very many editorial meetings, that saw this volume go from plan to production. You formed the infrastructure of this endeavor, which without you this volume would never have been completed.