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 →
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 →
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 →
I was interviewed for a news article regarding Hong Kong's economic performance and future as a financial centre, 20 years after the handover. Its close economic ties to mainland China has been both boon and bane. Hong Kong will need to reinvent itself in the face of growing competition from financial centres on mainland China... Continue Reading →
I was interviewed as part of Channel NewsAsia's "Inside the Storm" documentary series on the failings of global businesses. The last episode (aired on 24 January 2016) was on the fall of Lehman Brothers. The programme can be viewed here. For those who don't want to watch all 46 minutes of the programme, I appear mainly... Continue Reading →
I was recently interviewed by Channel NewsAsia for a news segment on 138 years of POSB Bank. The programme can be viewed here: http://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/video/posb-138-years-on-for/2234040.html Insights on the financial consumers and changes in Singapore's banking landscape came out of a research project on financial subject formation and the financialisation of everyday life. Specific remarks were based on this... Continue Reading →
Each year, the Economic Geography Research Group (EGRG) of the Royal Geographical Society (with Institute of British Geographers) (RGS-IBG) award a £100 prize to the best PhD dissertation in the field of economic geography (broadly defined). The prize is kindly sponsored by Sage. Previous winners are listed on the EGRG website: http://www.egrg.rgs.org/prizes In order to... Continue Reading →
I had a most fruitful time at the Fourth Global Conference on Economic Geography (4th GCEG) held in Oxford, 19-23 August 2015. Plenty of intellectual stimulation, meeting up with old friends, and making new connections. The plenary sessions were of top quality and many interesting papers presented over three full days. Before the official start... Continue Reading →
This is a call for support with a project on the movement of economic geographers into business and management. IN THE BUSINESS OF ECONOMIC GEOGRAPHY: TRACKING THE MOVEMENT OF ECONOMIC GEOGRAPHERS INTO BUSINESS AND MANAGEMENT Project website: www.egrg.rgs.org/business-of-econ-geog Recent years have witnessed a noticeable migration of economic geographers from Departments of Geography (or Geography programmes more broadly... Continue Reading →
Karen P.Y. Lai 