China’s Fintech Footprint in Africa
May 13th, 2024
Via The Wire, a look at China’s fintech footprint in Africa: Instead of visiting a bank, Nigerians who need to move money are now just as likely to visit a street market and speak to an agent working for OPay, a Chinese-backed fintech company. These agents form part of a vast network that has propelled […]
Read more »Mexico Weighs Options to Absorb $40 Billion of Pemex Debt
May 13th, 2024
Via Bloomberg, a report on the Mexican government’s plans for Pemex: Mexico is studying options to absorb as much as $40 billion in Pemex debt, the equivalent of what will come due in the next presidential term, one of its top finance officials told investors in New York. The government is considering options that could […]
Read more »Chinese to Explore Iraq’s Oil and Gas
May 13th, 2024
Via GeoPolitics in South Asia, a report on Chinese interest in Iraq’s petroleum assets: According to Reuters, Chinese companies won bids to explore five Iraqi oil and gas fields on Saturday in a licensing round for hydrocarbon exploration that was primarily aimed at ramping up gas production for domestic use. An Iraqi Kurdish company also […]
Read more »India Inks 10-Year Deal To Operate Iran’s Chabahar Port
May 13th, 2024
Via Dawn, an article on India’s 10-year contract with Iran on Monday to develop and operate the Iranian port of Chabahar, strengthening relations with a strategic Middle Eastern nation: India has been developing the port in Chabahar on Iran’s south-eastern coast along the Gulf of Oman as a way to transport goods to Iran, Afghanistan […]
Read more »What South Sudan Can Learn from Neighboring Gold Producers
May 13th, 2024
Via Capital, Energy & Capital, a report on South Sudan’s gold sector: While remaining underexplored, South Sudan is considered to hold significant commercial quantities of mineral resources. A nascent gold mining sector in the country offers established producers the opportunity to partner with the government on frontier prospects and leverage their expertise to spearhead mineral exploration, extraction […]
Read more »Malaysia’s Appetite For Oil and Gas Puts It On Collision Course With China
May 12th, 2024
Courtesy of The Washington Post, an article on Malaysia which – as reserves closer to shore run dry – is venturing farther into disputed waters of the South China Sea claimed and patrolled by China: In the open sea off the coast of Malaysian Borneo, industrial rigs extract massive amounts of oil and gas that […]
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.