Juan Camilo Giraldo Mora

Juan Camilo Giraldo Mora is a scholar of information systems. Since 2025, Juan Camilo has been appointed Assistant Professor (Lecturer) of Financial Technology and Digital Transformation. He is part of the Centre for Financial Technology Studies at Alliance Manchester Business School—The University of Manchester. Before his career in academia, he led financial and technological developments as part of the executive team at a global payment start-up.

Thus, for over a decade, Juan Camilo has worked in and studied the development of global financial technology, addressing how this technology relates to and drives implications for business, society, and—recently—the environment. His most detailed study reviews the digitalisation of global payment infrastructure, dating back to the House of Medici. Since 2013, he has also studied distributed ledger technology, engaging with international associations, such as SWIFT, IAMTN, and DLT Science Foundation, as well as FinTech companies across Europe, the United Kingdom, and Latin America.

In his research, Juan Camilo is particularly interested in reconceptualising technology—how it is and what it does—to account for its participation in sustainable development. He draws inspiration from continental philosophy and Latin American thinkers, but performs phenomenon-focused qualitative research. His analyses tend to complement situated approaches (e.g., observations) with longitudinal ones (e.g., historical documentation and narrative interviews). Following this background, he currently advances three research projects:

1. The Digitalisation of Global Payment Infrastructure: This project continues ongoing empirical and theoretical work that reinterprets the digitalisation of infrastructure and its associated change.
2. Digital Finance & Development: This is an early-stage project aiming to shed light on how digital finance relates to socioeconomic development by studying countries in Latin America.
3. Order, Technology, & Movement: This long-term project continues ongoing theoretical work that strives to reconceptualise technology’s instrumentality—temporally and ecologically—to account for its role in issues related to sustainability.

His PhD monograph—Giraldo Mora (2023)—titled “It is Along Ways: Global Payment Infrastructure in Movement” best exemplifies Juan Camilo’s research.