Russia and Iran Integrate Banking Systems To Avoid Western Sanctions
Via Frontier Markets News, an article on efforts by Russia and Iran to integrate their banking systems: Iran and Russia have connected their interbank communication and transfer systems to help [...]
Billions in Oil Riches Vanish in Latin America as Pemex Stumbles
Courtesy of Bloomberg, a report on how Pemex has seen its crude output decline almost every year since 2004 as mismanagement, debt and failing projects drag down Mexico’s oil giant: [...]
China Builds Influence By Building African Parliaments
Via Global Policy Journal, an interesting look at how China has fully financed the construction of at least 15 new African parliamentary buildings and refurbished several others: In 2005, during [...]
Indonesia’s Nickel Riches Spur Domestic EV, Battery Ambitions
Courtesy of Nikkei Asia, a look at how Indonesia’s nickel riches are spurring local company EV, battery ambitions: FROM COAL MINERS TO CONGLOMERATES, INDONESIA’S BURGEONING ELECTRIC [...]
Ethiopia’s Plans To Open Its Banking Sector
Courtesy of The Africa Report, a look at Ethiopia’s planned banking sector reform: Ethiopia is on the cusp. Since Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed came into office in April 2018, Ethiopia has laid [...]
Zimbabwe Plans New National Capital
Via Bloomberg, a report that Zimbabwe’s leader is seeking investment for a new national capital with luxury homes just down the road from an impoverished and overcrowded Harare: Zimbabwe’s [...]

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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.