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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.
2021/06/15 – Sarah Hall “The economic geographies of Brexit and financial services”
Register for free here (Regional Studies Association) The economic geographies of Brexit and financial services This paper analyses the...
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Apr 20, 20212 min read
21/04/2021 The ‘Strong Leader’ Trap: The Unintended Consequence of China’s Global Investment Strategy
21 April 2021 from 10 am – 12 pm (Singapore Standard Time). Register via Zoom : https://nus-sg.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZErfu-vrToqGNw...
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Mar 26, 20211 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
2019/11/26-28: Financialization and Development in the Global South, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Call for papers: Financialization and Development in the Global South Conference in Buenos Aires, Argentina, from 26 to 28 November 2019...
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Jul 9, 20194 min read
2019/09/15 – Beijing, China – First Global FinGeo Conference
CALL FOR PAPERS 1st FinGeo Global Conference 2019 Global Financial Shift? Mapping a Financialized World in Transformation Beijing Normal...
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Dec 18, 20183 min read
2019/01/08 – Brussels, Belgium – European Commission Conference on “Promoting Sustainable Finance”
EC Conference on “Promoting Sustainable Finance” January 8-9, 2019 – Brussels CALL FOR PAPERS The Technical Expert Group (TEG) on...
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Nov 14, 20184 min read
Does spatial concentration of the Russian banking sector hinder lending to peripheral regions and SM
– Svetlana Ageeva and Anna Mishura – For Russia, the geographical unevenness in the financial development is obvious. There are marked...
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Nov 14, 20183 min read
Algorithms and the Anthropocene – Finance, Sustainability and the Promise and Hazards of New Financial Technologies
– Thomas Skou Grindsted – Since the global financial crises (2007-2009), we have experienced one big crash with a temporality of years...
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Oct 8, 20182 min read
International Financial Centres After the Global Financial Crisis and Brexit
– Dariusz Wójcik – It has been ten years since the collapse of Lehman Brothers unleashed panic in financial markets, marking the eruption...
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Sep 24, 20185 min read
Philanthro-capitalism, social enterprises, and global development
– Dennis Stolz and Karen P.Y. Lai – While the 2008 global financial crisis created financial meltdown as well as socio-economic crisis of...
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Mar 28, 20182 min read
The geographies of financial activities within an emerging international financial center: the case
– Fenghua Pan, Sarah Hall, Hua Zhang – Despite Beijing being the well-known political center of China, its reputation as an international...
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Jan 14, 20181 min read
Unfinished business: change in the US securities industry since 2008
Sculpture: Kristen Visbal – Photo: Federica Valabreg – Dariusz Wójcik, Theodor Cojoianu – On 7 March 2017, the eve of International...
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Nov 1, 20173 min read
2017/08/29 – 2017/09/01 – London, UK – Annual International RGS-IBG Conference
FinGeo supported a series of seven sessions at the RGS-IBG Annual Conference 2017. The sessions were organised by financial geographers...
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Sep 8, 20172 min read
Geographical limits to arbitrage in the global oil market
– Michael H. Grote, Matthew Zook, Thomas Heidorn – For more than 30 years, the world’s main indices for oil prices – West Texas...
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Aug 4, 20173 min read
The Increasing Financialization of China’s Urbanization
– Thierry Theurillat, James H. Lenzer Jr. & Hongyu Zhan – Mainland China is well known for its massive and rampant urban development,...
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Jul 7, 20172 min read
Cluster dynamics of financial centres in the United Kingdom: Do connected firms grow faster?
– Vladimír Pažitka and Dariusz Wójcik – The aftermath of the global financial crisis (GFC) has seen a sharp reduction in employment in...
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Jul 6, 20173 min read
Research Associate – Finance and Geography – School of Geography and the Environment, Oxford
We are seeking to appoint a Research Associate to work on the project ‘Cities in Global Financial Networks: Financial and Business...
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Mar 27, 20172 min read
2017/09/04 – 2017/09/06 – Brussels, Belgium – The 3rd FinGeo Global Seminar “Financial geographies of Europe”
The 3rd FinGeo Global Seminar was organised as part of EUGEO’s 6th Congress on the Geography of Europe in Brussels on 4-6 September 2017....
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Mar 27, 20171 min read
2017/06/04 – Dublin, Ireland – Brexit, Trump and the Dusk of Globalisation? New Directions in Economic and Financial Geography
(Special FinGeo Panel at the RSA Annual Conference 2017, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland, 4th – 7th June, 2017) The session will explore...
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Mar 21, 20171 min read
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