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The research that underpins this book draws on an extensive period of fieldwork conducted with policymakers and financiers working in London and Beijing dating back to 2015. I would like to thank all the people I interviewed who gave up their time to be interviewed and talked me through the issues they were facing in their everyday work with care and patience. As a result, I learnt more about the intricacies of RMB internationalisation and London’s role within it than I could have ever done through reading secondary sources. Over the course of the research, I shared these insights with Fenghua Pan, and I would like to express thanks for Fenghua for sharing his incredible knowledge of the Chinese banking and financial system with me and hosting me at the early stages of the project at Beijing Normal University.

The research would not have been possible without the financial support of The British Academy through a Mid-Career Fellowship (award number MD 13006) and a period of research leave from the School of Geography at the University of Nottingham that gave me the time to learn about RMB internationalisation and London’s role within it. My colleagues at the University of Nottingham have been extremely supportive in terms of giving me the time to undertake this work and I would particularly like to thank Louise Crewe, Shaun French and Andrew Leyshon who have supported me through the good times and the trickier ones. The arguments presented here have benefited from conference audiences at a number of events where I presented preliminary ideas. I would particularly like to thank those at the Universities of Durham, Manchester, Cambridge and Newcastle as well as colleagues who attended meetings of the Royal Geographical Society with the Institute of British Geographers, the American Association of Geographers, the Global Conference in Economic Geography and the Global Network on Financial Geography. Through these events, I’m lucky to be supported by a wider network of financial and economic geographers that I feel very lucky to be a part of. Comments throughout the project from Karen Lai, Kean Fan Lim, Paul Langley and Adam Leaver have been incredibly helpful in refining the arguments in the book.

I would also like to acknowledge the support and patience of David Featherstone and Jacqueline Scott within the RGS-IBG book series team for their support and above all patience as I tried to complete this text. This has been particularly true as the final revisions to the book coincided with the coronavirus pandemic in the UK. As I tried to juggle completing the revisions with looking after my children the book would not have been possible without the support of my family (especially Mike, who has heard more about RMB internationalisation than he ever wanted to) and friends at home in looking after Raffi, Clemmie and Gus. This is for the three amigos.