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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 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

FinGeo is proud to announce that the 2023 FinGeo Doctoral Dissertation Prize has been awarded to an excellent applicant: Laura Deruytter ...

The Global Prize Ethics & Trust in Finance for a Sustainable Future is a bi-annual competition that was initiated in 2006 by the...

FinGeo is providing a small number of bursaries (typically GBP £300-£400 each) to attendees of the 6th Global Conference on Economic...

Young Academic Award, hosted by The World Alliance of International Financial Centers (WAIFC) invites young academics to submit papers or...

The Climate Investment Challenge, a worldwide pitch competition created at the Imperial College Business School. The aim of the...

This year’s winners are… Ludovico Rella (Durham University) Money’s Infrastructures: Blockchain Technologies and the Ecologies of the...

The Prize Ethics and Trust in Finance for a Sustainable Future asks people under the age of 35 working in or studying finance to...

Sponsored by The European Financial Geography Network EUFINGEO, Vrije Universiteit Brussels The Global Network on Financial Geography...

The  2nd Annual Conference  of the  Global Research Alliance for Sustainable Finance and Investment  being held at the University of...