Money and Finance | Financial Centres | FinTech | Data Centres | Asia
It was a real privilege to give a Keynote at the Intersections of Finance and Society 2023 conference last week. I have been reading the work of many researchers in this group but only just met many of them in-person for the first time, and it was rather nice to hear a few of them... Continue Reading →
During a recent research trip to Singapore in April, I was working with Dr Winston Chow and Dr Felicia Liu on our data centres project. While cramming in interviews with data centre stakeholders and team discussions during those two weeks, we also held a workshop on Green FinTech and Data Centres, based on our preliminary... Continue Reading →
** Deadline extended to 10th March 2023 ** Call for Paper for RGS-IBG Annual International Conference 2023 Digitalisation and Sustainability in Climate Changed Geographies: Production, Investment, and ConnectivitiesSession organisers:Felicia Liu (University of York)Karen Lai (Durham University)Digitalisation is emerging as the solution to contemporary sustainability challenges. According to its proponents, synergistic opportunities to deploy digital technology... Continue Reading →
[Update on 13/2/2023: Seminar cancelled due to strike date. To be rescheduled later in 2023.] Having postponed this during the pandemic lockdowns, I am very much looking forward to giving this seminar at my alma mater. Titled 'Gamification and re-intermediation in everyday financial practice' (22nd February 2023, 13.00, School of Geography, University of Nottingham), the... Continue Reading →
In September 2022, I had the pleasure of visiting the Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research (LISER) to deliver a talk for its research seminar series. It early conceptualisation of new collaborative research with Winston Chow (Singapore Management University) and funded by the Singapore Green Finance Centre. This project combines our research expertise as financial geographer... Continue Reading →
Very much looking forward to some stimulating discussion next week at the 6th Global Conference on Economic Geography (Dublin, 7-10 June 2022) with a great list of speakers, as we consider the conceptual opportunities, challenges and limitations of an increasingly platformised world for our understanding of economic organisation, processes, structures and markets. ~ ~ ~... Continue Reading →
FinTech in Southeast Asia: Observations across consumption and production dynamics Date: Thursday, 3rd March 2022 Time: 12:00-13:15 GMT (20:00-21:30 SGT) I am looking forward to delivering a seminar at the LSE Saw Swee Hock Southeast Asian Centre (SEAC) on FinTech in Southeast Asia. The seminar will cover recent trends on consumption and production dimensions of... Continue Reading →
It's been a rather busy April. Teaching and marking aside, I was able to give two seminars based on on-going work. The first was a seminar for the Centre for Urban and Regional Development (CURDS), Newcastle University, on 15th April 2021. Titled 'Ecologies of Green Finance in Islamic Financial Centre Development: The Case of Green... Continue Reading →
Given the uncertainty of holding in-person events in 2021, the FinGeo committee decided back in 2020 to organise a virtual seminar series to maintain community engagement and discussions. Organised in three parts (February-March, May-July, and September-November), we have finished with a very stimulating and well-attended Part 1, and about to start with Part 2 in... Continue Reading →
Join us in exploring new research ideas on the evolving geographies of FinTech! The 2-day online workshop will cover 4 main themes: Economic Geographies of FinTechFinTech Consumption and PracticesGeopolitics of FinTechFinTech Markets and Regulation Evolving Geographies of FinTech 25th November 2020 (13:00-17:00 GMT)26th November 2020 (08:00-12:00 GMT) Co-convenors: David Bassens (Vrije Universiteit Brussel)Reijer Hendrikse (Vrije... Continue Reading →
Karen P.Y. Lai 