ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on the effect of financialisation on the localisation of the financial industry in the Parisian territory. It demonstrates the historical reasons behind this geographical concentration. The terms virtuality, mobility and globality are often heard in connection with the financial world. Financial activity requires the prior existence of calculation instruments which will enable data storage, programme development and the reception of information. The urban scale makes it possible to reveal unique markers within both the human and non-human worlds which shape finance. The transformation of finance contributed towards reconfiguring the financial space. Financial activities are no longer exclusively localised in the centre of major metropolitan cities and the move towards suburbanisation is presently underway for activities with low added value, as well as for the servers and IT specialists who work with them.
