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Welcome to FinGeo's News & Thoughts, your hub for financial geography insights. Explore where financial landscapes meet geographic trends. Stay informed, inspired, and navigate the dynamic intersections of money globally. Dive into our blog for analysis, updates, and a deeper understanding of global financial geography.
2021/03/30 – Raquel Rolnik: Post 2008 financialized housing geographies: from above, from below
On the 30th March 2021, 13h-14h BST , Raquel Rolnik (University of Sao Paulo) will present to the FinGeo Virtual Seminar Series....
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Mar 22, 20212 min read
Capital flows and geographically uneven economic dynamics: a monetary perspective (by Karsten Kohler)
The 2008 Global Financial Crisis (GFC) has led to a renewed interest in finance, financial instability, and financialisation among...
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Mar 9, 20212 min read
Fintech, Philanthropy and Development: Emerging Issues with Digital Inclusion (by Juvaria Jafri)
Among the features of a global agenda centred on a finance-philanthropy-development nexus is a collaborative approach to advancing...
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Mar 9, 20213 min read
2021/03/16 – Vincent Guermond: Remittances and Financial Inclusion: Contested Geographies of M
On the 16th March 2021, Vincent Guermond (Royal Holloway) presented to the FinGeo Virtual Seminar Series. His talk was entitled :...
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Mar 1, 20212 min read
CfP – 2021 RSA Regions in Recovery e-festival (special session) – FINancial GEOgraphies
FinGeo will be hosting a special session (SS34 FINGEO) at the 2021 RSA regions in Recovery e-festival (2-18 June 2021) and invite...
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Feb 23, 20212 min read
Chinese State-owned bank expansion into Europe: Bank branches and subsidiaries (by Paolo Balmas and Sabine Dörry
– Paolo Balmas and Sabine Dörry – China’s global ambitions are being expressed, among others, by its huge infrastructure project ‘Belt...
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Feb 2, 20212 min read
2021/02/16 – Vladimír Pažitka (Oxford): Financial centres in investment banking networks: insi
Vladimír Pažitka started working at the School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford, as a research assistant in May...
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Feb 2, 20212 min read
The bridging role of Hong Kong for Chinese firms’ integrating into global financial networks (by Cheng Fang and Fenghua Pan)
— Cheng Fang and Fenghua Pan — The recent social unrest in Hong Kong, which began in 2019, has reignited debates about Hong Kong’s future...
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Jan 23, 20211 min read
2021/02/02 – Shaina Potts (UCLA, USA): Debt in the time of Covid
On the 2nd Feb 2021 Dr. Shaina Potts of UCLA presented the first ever FINGEO virtual seminar, entitled “Debt in the time of Covid”, the...
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Jan 23, 20211 min read


2021 FinGeo Virtual Seminar Series 1 (Feb – Mar)
Please register on the RSA website: https://www.regionalstudies.org/events/fingeo-2021/ Coming up in 2021: FinGeo Virtual Seminar Series ...
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Dec 17, 20201 min read
11x research positions “Practicing Place” – Catholic University Eichstätt-Ingolstadt [Deadline: 10 Dec 2020]
The Catholic University Eichstätt-Ingolstadt is seeking to fill an overall of eleven researcher positions – ten part-time positions (75%)...
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Nov 12, 20201 min read


Call for Papers – Warwick Critical Finance: Manuscript development workshop 2.0
Call for Papers – Warwick Critical Finance: Manuscript development workshop 2.0 For Early Career Researchers, writing and publishing...
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Nov 11, 20201 min read
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2x Research Associate in Finance and Geography – Oxford University [Deadline: 2 Dec 2020]
Oxford University is seeking to appoint two Research Associates to work on the project ‘Cities in Global Financial Networks: Financial...
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Nov 11, 20201 min read
ASSISTANT/ASSOCIATE/FULL PROFESSOR OF GEOGRAPHY & TOURISM: FLOWS OF PEOPLE AND MONEY (KU Leuven)
OPEN-RANK (I.A. TT ASSISTANT, ASSOCIATE OR FULL) PROFESSOR OF GEOGRAPHY & TOURISM: FLOWS OF PEOPLE AND MONEY KU Leuven, the University of...
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Nov 9, 20201 min read


2020/11/25-26 — “Evolving Geographies of FinTech” (FinGeo online workshop)
Full programme here Registration here The workshop will take place online via Zoom. Please register via the link above by 23rd November...
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Nov 9, 20204 min read
Money and Borders (by Mariana Santos and David Bassens)
– Mariana Santos and David Bassens – The constitutive importance of space to money and financial relations and practices has been widely...
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Oct 28, 20201 min read


2020/11/13-14 – Two *Virtual* Talks on Cities, Finance and Climate Risk
We are excited to announce two public talks on Nov 13-14, 2020 exploring the emerging urban political ecologies of climate and financial...
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Oct 28, 20203 min read
2020/10/31 – Call for papers: AAG 2021 Seattle + virtual “Real Estate, Finance and Urban
Please find below four sessions on real estate (incl. housing), finance and urban development at the American Association of Geographers...
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Oct 28, 202013 min read


2021/05/31 – Ethics & Trust in Finance 8th Global Prize
The Prize Ethics and Trust in Finance for a Sustainable Future asks people under the age of 35 working in or studying finance to...
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Oct 16, 20201 min read
Post-Doctoral Researcher in Global Correspondent Banking 1870-2000 – European Networks – University of Oxford [Deadline 30th of October]
Please see the full job description here . Please apply by 12 noon UK time on Friday 30th October 2020 at https://www.jobs.ox.ac.uk/
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Oct 12, 20201 min read
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