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This FinGeo blog article series is dedicated to the teaching of financial geography in higher education. Whilst research in financial geography has advanced considerably in recent years, there has been comparatively little discussion about how it is taught in higher education. This series contributes to this end by bringing together reflections from three teaching-active academics on their experiences in the classroom.  Dr Araby Smyth of Mount Allison University reflects on t

Author: Dr. Araby Smyth, Assistant Professor in the Department of Geography and Environment at Mount Allison University; email: asmyth@mta.ca   I originally didn’t think much of financialization and thought the subject would be boring. I couldn’t have been more wrong. - Anonymous response from a student experience survey, winter 2025. I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Geography and Environment at Mount Allison University (MtA), a public, mostly undergraduate, l

Author: Dr. Paweł Węgrzyn, SGH Warsaw School of Economics, Department of Economic Geography; e-mail: pwegrz@sgh.waw.pl   ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8963-2765 As an assistant professor teaching both capital markets and economic geography at a business-focused university, I find myself at a unique intersection of disciplines. This position allows me to introduce the spatial dimension of finance into both my economic geography courses and those concerning the functioning

Author: Dr. Stefanos Ioannou, Senior Lecturer in Economics, Oxford Brookes University; email: sioannou@brookes.ac.uk    For the past five years, I have been teaching economics at Oxford Brookes University, including a module on finance and economic development for third-year undergraduate students. This module has provided me with a platform to show students how financial geography enriches economic analysis. At the start of the module, I cover basic economic development mode

Fieldwork photo by the author (UK). London has long been one of the world’s leading financial centres and the birthplace of a global fintech ecosystem. Even after Brexit, financial services remain a cornerstone of the UK economy, guided by some of the most forward-thinking regulators worldwide. One might assume, then, that access to basic banking defined as the ability to manage a current account, withdraw cash, deposit funds, and make payments, is a given. It isn’t. In my Ph

The 4th FinGeo School will be held at University of Bologna (Italy) from the 30st January to 1st February 2026. We welcome all scholars, policymakers, professionals, and practitioners, early, mid, and senior, interested in advances in financial geography in a high-quality, scientific, enriching, and friendly environment. FinGeo school targets early-career researchers (Post-Grad, PhD students, Post-docs, etc.), but it is open to anyone interested. This edition will focus on in

The FinGeo Seminar aims at debating advances in financial geography within the following broad nexuses: (1) Geography, Finance, Development & Social Businesses (2) Geography, Finance & Environmental and Social Sustainability (3) Geography, Finance & Technology advances We will discuss, among others, FinTech, AI-finance nexus, sustainable finance, biofinance, climate finance, finance for social business, relational credit, philanthropy, development finance from different persp

The FinGeo Steering Committee is pleased to announce that the  2025 FinGeo Doctoral Dissertation Prize  has been awarded to  Dr Andra Sonea , from the Centre for Interdisciplinary Methodologies, University of Warwick, for her outstanding thesis, “ Everyday Banking, a Critical National Infrastructure in Transition: The Case of Access to Banking in the UK. ” Andra Sonea has recently completed her PhD in Urban Science at the University of Warwick. Currently a postdoctoral resear

Last February, the National University of Singapore hosted two significant events in financial geography that brought together scholars...

Special Issue Editor(s) Daniel Haberly, University of Sussex, UK Alex Cobham, Tax Justice Network, UK Miroslav Palanský, Tax Justice...

The FinGeo Network is pleased to announce the opening of submissions for the 2025 FinGeo Doctoral Dissertation Prize . We invite recent...

We are pleased to announce the upcoming Second Global Financial Geography (FinGeo) Conference  and the Third FinGeo School , organized by...