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 →
An update on my current research project with Dr Winston Chow (Singapore Management University) and Dr Felicia Liu (University of York) on green fintech and data centres (DC) in Singapore. In this interdisciplinary project, we examine the economic, environmental, and regulatory dimensions of sustainable DC futures in Singapore, with the view of identifying transferable lessons... Continue Reading →
Liu, Felicia and Lai, Karen P.Y. (2021) ‘Ecologies of Green Finance: Green Sukuk and Development of Green Islamic Finance in Malaysia’, Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space, https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0308518X211038349. Pleased to see that a paper that I have been working on with my former PhD student, Felicia Liu, is now published. This may be of interest to those... Continue Reading →
I have been working on a collection of commentaries about the intersections of finance and geopolitics in studying the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) and this has just been published in Eurasian Geography and Economics (https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rege20/61/2) ** Open Access until 30 June 2020 ** as "Research Colloquium: Financing the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI)". This... Continue Reading →
The Regional Studies special issue that I have been working on with Fenghua Pan, Martin Sokol and Dariusz Wojcik has just been published. Titled "New financial geographies of Asia", the special issue brings together a collection of papers that examines the role of finance in the restructuring of markets, firms, government policies and urban processes... Continue Reading →
My new paper titled 'Financial advisors, financial ecologies and the variegated financialisation of everyday investors', published in Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, is now available on Early View. Abstract While recent work on financialisation of everyday life has elucidated the reshaping of everyday consumers as risk-taking investors, the role of financial advisors (FAs) has... Continue Reading →
One of my earlier papers in Geography Compass (Economic section)—"New Spatial Logics in Global Cities Research: Networks, Flows and New Political Spaces"— has been selected as one of five most downloaded papers in the journal and relaunched in a new virtual issue. In conjunction with the upcoming Fourth Global Conference on Economic Geography, the virtual... Continue Reading →
I have a new paper on financial citizenship (co-authored with my former student TAN Choon Hang) that is now in press with Geoforum. The final corrected proof version of the paper is available for free download until 4 August 2015, no subscription or registration required. Please use this link. (The link below brings you to... Continue Reading →
My Area paper titled 'The Lehman Minibonds crisis and financialisation of investor subjects in Singapore' is now available online under Early View on the journal website.
Lai, Karen (2011) 'Differentiated Markets: Shanghai, Beijing and Hong Kong in China's Financial Centre Network', Urban Studies, DOI: 10.1177/0042098011408143. The online version of this article can be found at: http://usj.sagepub.com/content/early/2011/06/04/0042098011408143 Abstract: This paper examines the roles of Shanghai, Beijing and Hong Kong as financial centres by utilising interview and secondary data to analyse the decision-making... Continue Reading →
Karen P.Y. Lai 