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The notion of financialisation has been around for quite some time. Since its early formulations (eg Arrighi 1994; Sweezy 1997; Froud et al 2000; Stockhammer 2004; Epstein 2005; Krippner 2005), a great deal of studies have been published with a view to making sense of the many issues surrounding this topic. Admittedly, a lot of ground has been covered. We have learned that financialisation is about the ‘macro’, the institutional, structural and systemic processes that are associated with it, as well as the ‘micro’, the agencies that are affected by and shape these historical processes through financial practices and innovations that transform not only economies and societies, but also cultures, subjectivities, geographies and more (van der Zwan 2014). Today, the field of financialisation studies cuts across several disciplines and indeed challenges many disciplinary boundaries (Ertürk et al 2008, Mader et al. 2020 …