Register for free here This paper outlines the ways in which sovereign regulatory authorities are responding to the challenge of FinTech’s novel platform ecologies. For some western financial regulators FinTech has Goldilocks-like qualities, as the centrality of data to platform finance business models means that they may be better suited to providing consistent, up-to-date and […]
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2021/11/29 – Susan Soederberg “Governing Urban Displacements in Global Capitalism”
Register for free here The scarcity of affordable rental housing has become a defining social issue with an increasing number of impoverished households embroiled in a vicious cycle of displaced survival marked by overindebtedness, evictions and homelessness. To deconstruct this reality, I view low-income rental housing as a historical social relation in that it is […]
Continue reading2021/11/15 – Radha Upadhyaya “Employing Capital: Patient Capital and Labour Relations in Kenya’s Manufacturing Sector”
Register for free here Generating decent employment plays a key role in the creation of a new social contract and social cohesion in sub-Saharan Africa. The crucial question is thus, how to create more decent jobs? Much of the extant research has focused on the role of states and businesses in shaping employment relations. In […]
Continue reading2021/10/25 – Zac Taylor “Urbanizing Climate Finance: Tracing the Insurance-linked Securities Trade through South Florida and Singapore”
Register for free here Insurance-linked securities (ILS) and related property catastrophe reinsurance market instruments are increasingly positioned by states, development agencies, and financial institutions alike as crucial mechanisms for governing climate change through finance. This talk examines how the expanding market for ILS constitutes, and is constituted by, interconnected yet distinct urban political economies and […]
Continue reading2021/10/11 – Madeleine Fairbairn “Farmland investment, environmental uncertainty, and racialized dispossession in the U.S.”
Register for free here In recent years, financial institutions have evinced a growing demand for agricultural properties. This presentation explores some of the ways in which this phenomenon is currently playing out in the U.S. First—and primarily—I will present research which examines how investors seek to “render land investible” (Li 2014) in spite of the […]
Continue reading2021/09/27 – Rex A. McKenzie “Wealth Chain Property Investment in the hinterland – evidence from the Merseyside area in the Northwest of England”
Register for free here In this paper, we estimate and evaluate the scale and impact of wealth chain investment coming from offshore jurisdictions in a deprived urban context, focusing on the purchase of real estate in the Merseyside Area in the Northwest of England. We use HM Land Registry property sales data alongside the insights […]
Continue readingNUS Faculty position in Financial Geography (Full Professor level with tenure)
The Department of Geography at the National University of Singapore (NUS) seeks to appoint an established research leader in the field of Financial Geography; broadly understood as the study of money and finance in places, space and time, and their impacts on economy, nature and society. The successful candidate will be expected to play a […]
Continue readingToo-Much Branching: Cost of Debt of SMEs and Local Market Characteristics in Slovakia (by Maria Siranova and Oliver Rafaj)
Some people might consider the ‘brick-and-mortar’ bank branch to be an obsolete concept destined to become extinct. Almost every decade, it has been predicted that technology will render the physical presence of banks unnecessary. However, the bank branch has yet to be replaced as the primary source of soft information with an intrinsic spatial dimension. […]
Continue readingConference on Finance’s Pandemic Promises: Questioning impact and the Covid-driven surge in sustainable investing
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Continue reading2021/06/18 Brexit Geographies of the United Kingdom
Regions in Recovery Global E-Festival Programme Friday, June 18 12:00 PM – 2:00 PM GMT+1 Zoom (join the session) Chair: Johannes Glückler, Heidelberg University, Germany Geography is central to understanding the antecedents and consequences of Brexit, as demonstrated in both quantitative and qualitative studies. Extant research has analyzed the factors that explain leave votes and has shown the significance […]
Continue reading2021/06/18 Regions in Recovery Global E-Festival: Financial Geographies of Brexit
Friday, June 18 9:00 AM – 11:00 AM GMT+1 Zoom (join the session) Chair: Dariusz Wójcik, Oxford University, UKGeography is central to understanding the antecedents and consequences of Brexit, as demonstrated in both quantitative and qualitative studies. Extant research has analyzed the factors that explain leave votes and has shown the significance of age, education, individual attitudes and […]
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