ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the potentials and limits of the security/mobility nexus approach to be applied to the financial economy. While it might seem that finance, often equipped with attributions pertaining to circulation, flows, and mobility, invites such an application, the paper highlights some problematic epistemological consequences. To these belong an effacement of core financial characteristics, such as pricing, from security considerations whose ontology ought rather to be understood in terms of temporal sequentialization instead of territorial mobility. Furthermore, as exemplified through a reference to current warnings against cyber-attacks on financial infrastructures, these concerns call less for a safeguarding of mobility than for a sheltering of those places and locations where trade, pricing, and financial commensuration take place. Lastly, the chapter cautions against a complicity with calls for safeguarding financial mobility and liquidity, which can be functionalized for rejecting any political and legal regulations of financial markets.
