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FinTech: The dis/re-intermediation of finance? (2020)
Book Chapter
Lai, K. P. (2020). FinTech: The dis/re-intermediation of finance?. In J. Knox-Hayes, & D. Wójcik (Eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Financial Geography (440-458). Routledge

FinTech encompasses a new wave of companies developing new products and platforms to change the way businesses and consumers make payments, lend, borrow and invest. This chapter examines the ways in which FinTech products and services are reshaping t... Read More about FinTech: The dis/re-intermediation of finance?.

Towards an economic geography of FinTech (2020)
Journal Article
Lai, K. P., & Samers, M. (2021). Towards an economic geography of FinTech. Progress in Human Geography, 45(4), 720-739. https://doi.org/10.1177/0309132520938461

n this paper, we identify the ways in which the existing literature has examined financial technology (FinTech). Using the frame of the ‘FinTech Cube’, we examine how FinTech unfolds through the intersections of key actors, technologies and instituti... Read More about Towards an economic geography of FinTech.

Financing the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI): research agendas beyond the “debt-trap” discourse (2020)
Journal Article
Lai, K. P., Lin, S., & Sidaway, J. D. (2020). Financing the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI): research agendas beyond the “debt-trap” discourse. Eurasian Geography and Economics, 61(2), 109-124. https://doi.org/10.1080/15387216.2020.1726787

By way of introduction to the four papers that follow, we chart some key parameters of debate about finance and the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). In particular, we argue that the rise of discourses about “predatory lending” and “debt trap” (that fe... Read More about Financing the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI): research agendas beyond the “debt-trap” discourse.