Taylor Spears

Taylor Spears is Lecturer in Financial Technology and Organizations at the University of Edinburgh Business School. He is affiliated with the Edinburgh Centre for Financial Innovations and the Culture, Accounting, and Society (CAS) research network. His research examines the organizational dimensions of finance and technology, with a particular focus on how novel and emerging technologies transform financial markets and institutions. He is especially interested in understanding how clusters of financial modelling practices – i.e. modelling cultures – emerge and are reproduced within banks and other financial organizations, and how these cultures both enable and constrain these organizations’ capacity to manage risk.