Finance is undoubtedly one of the most globalised and networked phenomena in the world, yet it continues to display enormous geographical diversity in its operation and outcomes. In order to understand finance in its complexity, a global research network with a distinctly geographical approach is required. Griffith Centre for Personal Finance and Superannuation is delighted […]

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 […]

FinGeo’s 6th Global Seminar – Geography, Finance and Uneven Development, Sao Paolo, Brazil Place: Sao Paulo, Brazil Venue: University of São Paulo Event dates: 15th -17th  May 2019 Details & registration: http://fingeo2019.com/en/home/ Call for abstracts (250 to 300 words) on-line submission: http://fingeo2019.com/en/call-for-abstracts/ Call for abstracts – deadline: 11 February 2019 Notification of abstract acceptance: 25 February 2019 Email: fingeo2019@gmail.com The International Seminar on Geography, Finance […]

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 […]