Conference themes will include (but will not be limited to) the following:
- The causes, mechanisms and consequences of financialization, and their spatiality
- Financial instability and crises in space and time
- Geographies of fintech and internet finance
- Geo-politics and political geography of finance
- International financial centers
- Global financial networks
- Financing and regional development
- Infrastructure finance
- Financing the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI)
- Offshore financial centers and tax havens
- Present and future of RMB internationalization
- Sustainable finance
- Financial inclusion and exclusion
- Finance, innovation and entrepreneurship
- Geographies of debt
- Microfinance and development
- The finance–real estate nexus
- Financial and business services complex
- Geography of financial markets (bank, venture capital and et al.)
Confirmed keynote speakers in plenary sessions
- Manuel Aalbers, KU Leuven, Belgium
- Martine August, University of Waterloo, Canada
- Daniel Haberly, University of Sussex, UK
- Sarah Hall, University of Nottingham, UK
- Xiuping Hua, University of Nottingham Ningbo China, China
- Andrew Leyshon, University of Nottingham, UK
- Wei Li, ShouGang Fund, China
- Weidong Liu, Chinese Academy of Science, China
- Yong Liu, National Development Bank, China
- Jessie Poon, University at Buffalo, USA
- James Sidaway, National University of Singapore, Singapore
- Dariusz Wójcik, University of Oxford, UK
- Fulong Wu, University College London, UK
- Hong Yin, ICBC Urban Finance Research Institute, China
- Matthew Zook, University of Kentucky, USA
