The emerging spaces of FinTech
Type: Virtual Paper
Day: 3/1/2022
Start Time: 8:00 AM
End Time: 9:20 AM
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Liam Keenan
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Liam Keenan, University of Oxford
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Description:
FinTech has taken the world by storm. While there has always been some degree of integration between finance and technology, recent innovations in artificial intelligence, blockchain, platforms and the internet of things have propelled FinTech to the heart of modern economic, social and political discourse. As FinTech continues to transform production, consumption and the norms of everyday life, debates have intensified concerning its virtues and vices.
Economic geographers have played a central role in adding clarity to these debates. Studies have contributed to clearer understandings of the different definitions and taxonomies of FinTech (Wójcik, 2021), its potential to rework global production and financial networks (Lai and Samers, 2020), the role of the state in its uneven formations (Hendrikse et al., 2020) and its impact on financial incumbents through processes of reintermediation, consolidation and capitalisation (Langley and Leyshon, 2020). While this research has been instrumental in identifying the actors, institutions and processes which underpin FinTech, key questions remain unanswered, particularly concerning its complex and uneven geographies. Where are the leading FinTech centres? Through which spaces are finance and technology converging? Which theoretical and conceptual frameworks are best suited to meaningfully analyse the geographies of FinTech?
This session explores these questions by zooming in on the emerging spaces of FinTech. Drawing from fresh empirical insights across a range of geographical contexts, the session seeks to develop a firmer understanding of where FinTech is, where it might be moving, and why.
References
Hendrikse R, van Meeteren M and Bassens D (2020) Strategic coupling between finance, technology and the state: Cultivating a Fintech ecosystem for incumbent finance. EPA: Economy and Space 52(8): 1516-1538.
Lai K and Samers M (2020) Towards an economic geography FinTech. Progress in Human Geography 45(4): 720-739.
Langley P and Leyshon A (2020) The Platform Political Economy of FinTech: Reintermediation, Consolidation and Capitalisation. New Political Economy 26(3): 376-388.
Wójcik D (2021) Financial Geography I: Exploring FinTech – Maps and concepts. Progress in Human Geography 45(3): 566-576.
Presentation(s), if applicable
Dariusz Wojcik, ; Looking for India’s capital: mapping the FinTech ecosystem across Indian cities |
Timothy Monteath, ; Locating the Tech in GPN 2.0: A global geography of the information technology sector 2001-2020 |
Liam Keenan, University of Oxford; More than FinTech? The Convergence of Global Production Networks and Global Financial Networks through Inter-Sectoral Mergers and Acquisitions |
Panagiotis Iliopoulos, ; Investigating the Financial Geography of FinTech in Europe |
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The emerging spaces of FinTech
Description
Virtual Paper
Contact the Primary Organizer
Liam Keenan - liam.keenan@ouce.ox.ac.uk
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