Strong regulation and dynamic regulators are helping nurture a fintech boom across the region. This article appears in the October issue of Global Finance Magazine. The number of fintech startups in Latin America has grown by 340% over the past six years as these companies take a leading position in areas such as financial inclusion,…
Mention a bank headquartered in the Caribbean and many people picture the same thing: a quiet office, a numbered account, and money that nobody is supposed to ask about. Benjamin Wey thinks that picture is decades out of date, and that clinging to it gets something important wrong about modern finance. Wey serves as Senior…
The island nation sets out to eliminate high fees and multi-day delays for African cross-border transactions. This article appears in the October issue of Global Finance Magazine. In a fragmented landscape, aggregation matters. This philosophy underpins Mauritius’s quest to become the epicenter of cross-border payments in Africa, where layers of friction and an inability to…
Buying an exotic car involves more than selecting a make, model, and color. Buyers need accurate vehicle information, clear finance pathways, secure paperwork, and practical support after choosing a car. A specialist dealer brings those elements together through experienced staff, detailed listings, showroom access, and transaction services. The result is a purchase process based on…
The market is just emerging, but domestic banks may already be exposed to global risk. This article appears in the October issue of Global Finance Magazine. Japan’s private credit market may still be small, but its exposure to private credit is not. That is an important distinction as the Bank of Japan warns that growing…
Buying an established company involves a different funding calculation from borrowing for stock, equipment or short-term cash flow. The lender is looking at a business with accounts, customers, liabilities and a trading record, while also assessing the buyer and the structure of the purchase. There is no single borrowing percentage that applies to every business…
Emergency financing and debt rollovers have given Islamabad crucial breathing room for growth. This article appears in the October issue of Global Finance Magazine. Pakistan’s economy has staged a comeback from the brink of sovereign default. Three catastrophic events in 2022 exacerbated its existing fiscal and external vulnerabilities: the Russia–Ukraine war, the political instability after…
Some money is flexible. It can sit in a brokerage account, ride out a bad quarter, wait for a better moment. Other money is not flexible at all. It has a date attached to it, and the date does not move. Rent clears on the first. A car payment posts on the fifteenth. An insurance…
Layering AI migration on top of their day jobs has tired workers worried about thier jobs. Artificial intelligence has not only transformed the financial services industry but has also created massive change fatigue among its workforce. According to the authors of PwC’s 2026 Global Workforce Hopes and Fears Survey, published on the second day of…
Dogecoin has risen again before, repeatedly, from positions that looked terminal. It traded below $0.003 for years before the 2021 run to $0.73. It recovered from the 2018 and 2022 crashes. The question traders are asking in September 2026 is not whether DOGE can rise, because the historical record is clear that it can, but…