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FinTech Capital: Colonial Conditions of Possibility
Paul Langley
Durham University
Opening seminar
This presentation examines FinTech as an emergent mode of capital, constituted through historical financial capitalism and contemporary digital capitalism. Focusing on sub-Saharan Africa, it considers colonial legacies of financial marginalisation and how FinTech can renovate relations of expropriation and value transfer.
Scheduled.
Start: 10:00 UK time.
Hong Kong 18:00 · Hangzhou / Beijing 18:00 · Manchester 10:00 · London 10:00 · Johannesburg 12:00 · Durham 10:00
All times are local on Monday 16 November 2026.
Paul Langley is Professor of Economic Geography in the Department of Geography at Durham University, UK. Co-authored with Andrew Leyshon, his book FinTech Capital was published in 2026 in the Near Futures series of Zone Books, distributed by Princeton University Press.
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