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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 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...