“…There are the infrastructures of payment transfer, some of which are discussed elsewhere in this book, whose management, and in particular the management of the streams of data involved, can become a substantial source of profit in its own right (Maurer, 2012a(Maurer, , 2012b, as well as the related payment card industry (Deville, 2013b;Stearns, 2011;Swartz, 2014), infrastructures of cash dispensing (Bátiz-Lazo et al, 2014;Bátiz-Lazo and Reid, 2011), and technologies and techniques associated with the management of credit risk and default, whether on the side of the consumer (Langley, 2014) or the organisation (Deville, 2015b;Lazarus, 2013b;Ossandón, 2014;Poon, 2007Poon, , 2009. One could even extend the net to more ephemeral practices, such as the governmental attempts to nurture particular kinds of educated, financially aware monetary citizens (Arthur, 2012;Lazarus, 2013aLazarus, , 2015Marron, 2014). Money is self-evidently a social relation.…”