Register for free here (Regional Studies Association) The economic geographies of Brexit and financial services  This paper analyses the implications of Brexit for financial geographies in the EU. Popular and media attention has focused on the relocation of some jobs and assets from London to European financial centres. These reports argue that such relocations are a […]

Register for free here (Regional Studies Association)   Investment Governance for Fiduciaries  Governance is a word that is increasingly heard and read in modern times, be it corporate governance, global governance, or investment governance. Investment governance refers to the effective employment of resources—people, policies, processes, and systems—by an individual or governing body (the fiduciary or […]

Register for free here (Regional Studies Association) The financialisation of Chinese cities and the role of urban investment and development companies  Shanghai, like other large Chinese cities, has multiple business districts. This paper examines the construction of one of its largest, at Hongqiao in the west of the city. Hongqiao is one of China’s biggest urban projects, rivalling […]

Register for free here (Regional Studies Association) Open the fortress! When financial centre and urban development collide – the case of Luxembourg–City, Luxembourg  The seminar gives an overview of urban dynamics in Luxembourg City, the small-but-global capital of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, one of Europe’s leading financial centres. Recent debates have revolved around the consequences of […]

FinGeo Spring School 2018 FinGeo Spring School 30 May – 2 June 2018 Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, Belgium The First FINGEO Spring School aimed to immerse Early Career scholars to effectively understand and analyse the inherently socio-spatially uneven nature of financialization in Europe. The FINGEO Spring School offers an Early Career program aimed at advanced methodological […]

2nd FinGeo Summer School 21 –  24 June, 2021 Online   The four-day FinGeo Summer School is intended for early career scholars, e.g. advanced PhD students, Postdocs and early career faculty members. The Summer School is designed to prepare researchers for academic advancement and to build a community of scholars researching the intricate relations between […]

  21 April 2021 from 10 am – 12 pm (Singapore Standard Time). Register via Zoom: https://nus-sg.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZErfu-vrToqGNwEeEDY2JMkMwNDQ5TJK8gX    

On the 30th March 2021, 13h-14h BST, Raquel Rolnik (University of Sao Paulo) will present to the FinGeo Virtual Seminar Series. Raquel’s talk is entitled: “Post 2008 financialized housing geographies: from above, from below” and the session will be chaired by Dariusz Wójcik (Uni Oxford). Please register (for free) at the Regional Studies Assoc. website: […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]