The 2008 Global Financial Crisis (GFC) has led to a renewed interest in finance, financial instability, and financialisation among geographers and heterodox economists. In this context, capital flows, i.e. financial transactions between residents of different geographical units, have received attention for their potential role in geographically uneven economic dynamics such as local financial booms. In […]
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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 digital financial inclusion. The digital form of financial inclusion builds on earlier development interventions centred on microcredit and its more expansive version: microfinance. While these earlier interventions came across as grassroots initiatives to counter the exclusionary nature […]
Continue reading2021/03/16 – Vincent Guermond: Remittances and Financial Inclusion: Contested Geographies of Marketisation in Senegal and Ghana
On the 16th March 2021, Vincent Guermond (Royal Holloway) presented to the FinGeo Virtual Seminar Series. His talk was entitled : “Remittances and Financial Inclusion: Contested Geographies of Marketisation in Senegal and Ghana”. The session was chaired by David Bassens (VUB). Vincent Guermond is a Research Associate at Royal Holloway, University of London. He […]
Continue readingCfP – 2021 RSA Regions in Recovery e-festival (special session) – FINancial GEOgraphies of regional and urban recovery
FinGeo will be hosting a special session (SS34 FINGEO) at the 2021 RSA regions in Recovery e-festival (2-18 June 2021) and invite scholars to submit papers. Click here to submit an abstract, please choose the session (SS34 FINGEO) from the Gateway Theme during the submission process. Abstract submission deadline now extended to 31st March 2021 […]
Continue reading02-March-21 – Jessie Poon: Geographies of financial regulation: the rise of regulatory capitalism
On the 2nd March 2021 (11h-12h GMT) Jessie Poon of the University at Buffalo presented “Regulation and Financial Organizational Capacity: Evidence from US and Singapore” to the FinGeo Virtual Semainr Series. The event was be chaired by Karen Lai (Durham University). Jessie Poon is Professor of Geography at the University at Buffalo, New York. She […]
Continue reading2021/02/16 – Vladimír Pažitka (Oxford): Financial centres in investment banking networks: insights from five years of early career research
Vladimír Pažitka started working at the School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford, as a research assistant in May 2015, before beginning his doctoral studies later that year. In addition to his doctoral thesis, he has worked on several additional research projects and by the time he defended his doctoral thesis in June […]
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