Nubank’s Secret To Becoming The World’s Biggest Digital Bank: A User-Friendly App
August 4th, 2023
Courtesy of Rest of World, a look at Brazil’s Nubank whose app has helped it become the world’s biggest digital bank: In Brazil, the Nubank app is a one-stop shop for all things banking. Like most banking apps, it allows for online payments, loans, and money transfers (be it through wire transfer or Brazil’s popular […]
Read more »BRICS: At Risk Becoming Satellites of China
July 27th, 2023
Courtesy of The Financial Times, commentary on the BRICS’ lopsided turn towards China: There can’t be many international summits where a head of government stays away for fear of being arrested for war crimes, but the BRICS grouping has managed it. Vladimir Putin will skip next month’s meeting of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South […]
Read more »Trading Chickens for a Fragile State
July 15th, 2023
Via The National Interest, a look at South Africa’s poultry crisis and how trade practices promulgated in North America, Europe, and the UK have a stake in the outcome, beyond the chicken trade, not just for South Africa but many other developing nations as well: Africa is littered with the economic debris of predatory trade […]
Read more »Latin American Renewables Boom: Not Just A China Story
July 6th, 2023
Courtesy of The Asia Times, a report on Latin America’s renewable industry where Chinese firms back the lion’s share of projects but homegrown industries and ‘frugal innovation’ also are key: The story of renewable energy’s rapid rise in Latin America often focuses on Chinese influence, and for good reason. China’s government, banks and companies have […]
Read more »Sour Power: LatAm Countries Among Top Lemon Producers
July 6th, 2023
Courtesy of Latinometrics, an interesting look at the importance of Latin American and other emerging markets in global lemon production: Let’s start this story about lemons and limes by clarifying some confusion: Generally speaking, lemons are ‘limas,’ and limes are ‘limones’ in Spanish. As native Spanish speakers, this has always been a significant source of […]
Read more »China’s Growing Influence in Latin America
June 27th, 2023
Via the Council on Foreign Relations, a detailed look at how – for more than two decades – China has developed close economic and security ties with many Latin American countries, including Brazil and Venezuela: Summary China is South America’s top trading partner and a major source of both foreign direct investment and lending in […]
Read more »Focusing primarily on The New Seven Sisters - the largely state owned petroleum companies from the emerging world that have become key players in the oil & gas industry as identified by Carola Hoyos, Chief Energy Correspondent for The Financial Times - but spanning other nascent opportunities around the globe that may hold potential in the years ahead, Wildcats & Black Sheep is a place for the adventurous to contemplate & evaluate the emerging markets of tomorrow.