Financial geography’s futures amidst the dialectics of geoeconomics and geopolitics

In what follows we reflect on financial geography through the intertwined lenses of geopolitics and geoeconomics. Whilst finance has always been shaped by power, conflict and socio-spatial unevenness, these dynamics have become particularly visible amid US–China rivalry, sanctions and tariffs, and reignited debates over dollar hegemony. Tracing the longer genealogies of financial geography, we link contemporary directions to earlier work on development, sovereignty, seigniorage, globalisation and the fiscal-military state. We highlight maturing research agendas on central banks, digital currencies, corporate geopolitics, financial services trade, empire, and racialisation, Islam and finance, offshore jurisdictions and climate finance, and conclude that financial geography should deepen engagements with historical, political and development geography to better understand finance within spatially and politically contested systems.