Workshop on ‘Emerging Production Networks of Fintech’ National University of Singapore, 10th & 11th December 2018 Fintech, a shorthand for ‘financial technology’, brings together firms and actors from the finance industry and technology and innovation clusters in changing the ways that capital raising, financial transactions and investment decisions are being made, often through the use […]

EC Conference on “Promoting Sustainable Finance”  January 8-9, 2019 – Brussels CALL FOR PAPERS The Technical Expert Group (TEG) on Sustainable Finance and the Community of Practice in Financial Research (CoPFiR), both set up by the European Commission, are pleased to announce a call for papers for a Conference on “Promoting Sustainable Finance”. The conference […]

Paper session proposal for the Annual Meeting of the American Association of Geographers (AAG)–Washington D.C., April, 2019 Session title: Changing political geographies of finance Session co-organizers: Dr. Michael Urban and Dr. Stefanos Ioannou Session outline: This session aims to bring together studies on the interlocking relationship between financial markets, financial institutions, politics and regulation. Recognising […]

“Selling (critical) finance”: Getting your work published To be held on 3rd – 4th of September 2018 at the University of Warwick Agenda For Early Career Researchers, writing and publishing journal papers is an essential, yet often daunting, task. How to set up your original research and speak to existing debates? How to tailor your […]

The FinGeo Executive Committee is delighted to invite all current and prospective FinGeo members to the 2018 Annual General Meeting (AGM) of the Global Network on Financial Geography, which will take place on Tuesday, 24 July in Cologne, Germany, 11am-12.30pm, just before the start of the first sessions of the Fifth Global Conference on Economic Geography (GCEG).  […]

First FINGEO Spring School 30 May – 2 June 2018 Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, Belgium ***   Local Organizers: Manuel Aalbers (KU Leuven), David Bassens (Vrije Universiteit Brussel), Reijer Hendrikse (Vrije Universiteit Brussel), Michiel van Meeteren (Vrije Universiteit Brussel) Advisory Board: Sabine Dörry (LISER, Luxembourg), Gary Dymski (Leeds University), Karen Lai (National University Singapore), Martin […]

Members of the Global Network on Financial Geography (FinGeo) will chair a number of sessions at the 5th Global Conference on Economic Geography 2018 in Cologne, Germany. Please find an overview of these sessions in alphabetical order below. Abstracts should be submitted online through the conference website between November 15, 2017 and March 29, 2018. […]

Fifth FINGEO Global Seminar “European Spaces of Financialization” 28-29 May 2018 Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, Belgium *** Local Organizers: Manuel Aalbers (KU Leuven), David Bassens (Vrije Universiteit Brussel), Reijer Hendrikse (Vrije Universiteit Brussel), Michiel van Meeteren (Vrije Universiteit Brussel) Advisory Board: Sabine Dörry (LISER, Luxembourg), Gary Dymski (Leeds University), Karen Lai (National University Singapore), Martin […]

FinGeo supported a series of seven sessions at the RGS-IBG Annual Conference 2017. The sessions were organised by financial geographers at various career stages and brought together a diverse set of papers dealing with platform finance, FinTech and financialisation with special focus on emerging and low-income economies. An authors-meet-critics session for the new book ‘Money […]

This is the time of financial geographers’ life: A financial crisis, followed by an economic crisis, followed by a European sovereign debt crisis, the Eurosystem fully under stress, and the Brexit potentially shaking out the European system of financial centers. At the same time new currencies emerge, new technologies broaden access to finance, and pose […]

Book Launch & Meet-the-Authors: Handbook on the Geographies of Money and Finance – edited by Ron Martin and Jane Pollard – Sponsored by the RSA Research Network on Financial Geography (FinGeo). Time: Tuesday 06/06/2017 1430 – 1600 Chair: Martin Sokol – Trinity College Dublin Authors/Panellists: Ron Martin – University of Cambridge, UK (Co-Editor) Dariusz Wójcik – […]

The 4th FinGeo Global Seminar will be held at the National University of Singapore as part of the Conference on Global Production, 6-8 December 2017. There will be a series of paper sessions and panel discussion with the overarching theme of “Global financial networks”. Please find an overview of the programme here. We welcome proposals […]