Delegates at this year’s International Monetary Fund-World Bank meetings in Bangkok, Thailand, should be filled with angst.

Latin America’s transition finance challenge is as much about transforming its economies as it is about mobilising capital.

A September 2025 paper argued that more than a decade of exceptional US performance had created structural portfolio overweights and that Europe, the UK and Japan were likely to benefit as investors ...

The higher that price, the less exorbitant the privilege. The evidence suggests that this price now depends on which ...

To commemorate 10 years of the Absa Africa Financial Markets Index, OMFIF and Absa Group look back on what has changed in the continent, what the index reveals about market development and which ...

Europe faces mounting challenges from geopolitical fragmentation, rising defence spending requirements and persistent concerns over competitiveness. For the Baltic states, situated on Nato’s eastern ...

With a spate of ‘rogue agent’ hacks, the cybersecurity threats posed by frontier artificial intelligence models have moved from theoretical to a clear and present danger. So far, these hacks have ...

There is a point in any debt spiral at which the question stops being political and becomes arithmetic. The US – and much of the developed world – has reached that point. Understanding why requires no ...

Extreme storms, wildfires and floods have devastated communities and nations globally, endangering lives and costing billions in losses. Insurance may be a key to unlocking greater resilience across ...

As a region rich in natural capital and sources of clean energy, Latin America has the potential to become a global leader ...