Nubank’s Secret To Becoming The World’s Biggest Digital Bank: A User-Friendly App
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. [...]
New Kids in The Block: BRICS, MINT, and Now D-8
Via Modern Diplomacy, an article on the Developing-8 (D8) group of countries that comprise Bangladesh, Egypt, Indonesia, Iran, Malaysia, Nigeria, Pakistan, and Türkiye. Cooperation is a [...]
How Vietnam’s Infrastructure Incapacity Undermines Its Geoeconomic Ambitions
Courtesy of The Diplomat, a report on how the lack of progress on the 555-kilometer railway linking Vung Ang to the Lao capital Vientiane contrasts starkly with the recently completed [...]
China’s Global Economic ‘Island Hopping’ Strategy
Via Foreign Policy Research Institute, commentary on China’s use of economic inducements and threats to forge relationships with island states across the Indian Ocean, Caribbean, and the South [...]
British International Investment Bets on African Infrastructure and Innovation
Courtesy of The Africa Report, commentary from the UK development financier BII which is funding telecoms in Ethiopia and partnering with DP World in Senegal about infrastructure investment in [...]
Afghanistan in China’s Grand Strategy
Courtesy of The Diplomat, a look at how China’s active engagement in the country’s affairs is driven by Afghanistan’s strategic position at the crossroads of Central and South Asia, coupled [...]

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Wildcats & Black Sheep is a personal interest blog dedicated to the identification and evaluation of maverick investment opportunities arising in frontier - and, what some may consider to be, “rogue” or “black sheep” - markets around the world.

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.