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Welcome to FinGeo’s News & Opportunities — your hub for the latest updates, calls for papers, job openings, and event highlights in financial geography. Please stay connected with our global community, explore new opportunities, and keep up with the evolving intersections of finance and space.
Call for Papers - RGS-IBG Annual Conference 2024
🔍📢 Call for Papers - RGS-IBG Annual Conference 2024 Session Title: Knowledge Creation in Finance Organizer: Dr. Stefanos Ioannou,...
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Feb 5, 20241 min read
Call for submissions 23 February 2024 - Session proposal for the RGS-IBG Conference, London, 27-30 August 2024
🌐 Attention FINGEO Members! Immerse yourself in the world of financial visualization at the RGS-IBG Conference in London, Aug 27-30,...
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Feb 5, 20241 min read
Postdoctoral/Research Fellow in Asia Research Institute (Asian Infrastructures) at the National Univ
This is the final call for applications – the deadline is 30 September. The successful applicant is expected to commence duties at NUS in...
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Sep 27, 20221 min read
2023/05/29 | 9th. edition Global Prize “Ethics & Trust in Finance for a Sustainable Futur
The Global Prize Ethics & Trust in Finance for a Sustainable Future is a bi-annual competition that was initiated in 2006 by the...
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Sep 5, 20221 min read
Call for abstracts: The new green global division of labour: Emerging geographies of decarbonisation
The ongoing shift away from fossil fuels has sometimes been framed as a ‘green energy race’ among states, each competing with one another...
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Sep 1, 20223 min read
Three research associates (PhD or Postdoc) in the field of climate change and global finance, Witten/Herdecke University
Witten/Herdecke University, which was founded in 1982, is Germany’s first privately funded university. At present, it has a staff of more...
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Jul 24, 20221 min read
2022/08/06 Financial Centres of the Future – What Role for Latin America and Africa?
We’re organizing a workshop on ‘Financial Centres of the Future – What Role for Latin America and Africa?’ at the Development Studies...
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Mar 4, 20221 min read
From transition bank to EU neighborhood policy bank: EBRD’s commitment change in Egypt (by Dóra Piro
The European Bank for Restructuring and Development (EBRD) is one of the least visible and most controversial regional development banks....
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Mar 4, 20223 min read
2022/04/12 |Manuel Wirth| Doing Good with Finance? Impact investing and Marketization of the Youth Homelessness in the UK
In this talk, I present findings from my dissertation in which I studied the implementation of a social policy tool called the Social...
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Feb 14, 20222 min read
FinGeo Doctoral Dissertation Prize 2021
This year’s winners are… Ludovico Rella (Durham University) Money’s Infrastructures: Blockchain Technologies and the Ecologies of the...
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Jan 10, 20221 min read
Global financial professionals and the China Investment Corporation: Handmaidens to the global expan
The stock of Chinese foreign direct investment into the advanced capitalist economies has grown exponentially in the past decades,...
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Dec 17, 20213 min read
2 x Post-Doctoral Researchers in Global Correspondent Banking 1870-2000, University of Oxford
Global Correspondent Banking 1870-2000 | The University of Oxford We are seeking two Post-Doctoral Researchers to join the team working...
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Nov 18, 20211 min read
2021/12/13 – Andrew Leyshon “Neoliberal Fairy Tales and Authoritarian Realpolitik: Regul
Register for free here This paper outlines the ways in which sovereign regulatory authorities are responding to the challenge of...
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Sep 23, 20212 min read
2021/11/29 – Susan Soederberg “Governing Urban Displacements in Global Capitalism”
Register for free here The scarcity of affordable rental housing has become a defining social issue with an increasing number of...
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Sep 23, 20212 min read
2021/11/15 – Radha Upadhyaya “Employing Capital: Patient Capital and Labour Relations in Kenya's Manufacturing Sector
Register for free here Generating decent employment plays a key role in the creation of a new social contract and social cohesion in...
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Sep 23, 20212 min read
2021/10/25 – Zac Taylor “Urbanizing Climate Finance: Tracing the Insurance-linked Securi
Register for free here Insurance-linked securities (ILS) and related property catastrophe reinsurance market instruments are increasingly...
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Sep 23, 20212 min read
2021/09/27 – Rex A. McKenzie “Wealth Chain Property Investment in the hinterland – Evidence from the Merseyside area in the Northwest of England
Register for free here In this paper, we estimate and evaluate the scale and impact of wealth chain investment coming from offshore...
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Sep 23, 20212 min read
Too-Much Branching: Cost of Debt of SMEs and Local Market Characteristics in Slovakia (by Maria Siranova and Oliver Rafaj)
Some people might consider the ‘brick-and-mortar’ bank branch to be an obsolete concept destined to become extinct. Almost every decade,...
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Jul 1, 20212 min read
2021/06/18 Regions in Recovery Global E-Festival: Financial Geographies of Brexit
Friday, June 18 9:00 AM – 11:00 AM GMT+1 Zoom (join the session) Chair: Dariusz Wójcik, Oxford University, UKGeography is central to...
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Jun 15, 20212 min read
2021/13/07 – Amy Horton “Care and financial fragility”
Register for free here (Regional Studies Association) Care and financial fragility Care for ageing populations has been seen as a major...
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Apr 20, 20211 min read
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