Uzbekistan: A Private Sector Affair
Via Eurasianet, a report on Uzbekistan where credit and access to hard currency are no longer problems, but the lack of experienced workers is causing businesses to be innovative: In Uzbekistan, the [...]
Nigeria’s Largest Mobile Operator Is About To Become A Bank
Via Quartz, an article on MTN Nigeria’s move into formal banking: The fledgling mobile money market in Nigeria is about to get a major shake-up. MTN Nigeria, the country’s largest telecoms [...]
Wall Street Meets Tashkent
Via Radio Free Europe, an interesting article on how Uzbek officials – amid reforms at home – recently made their pitch to investors in New York: After a quarter-century under Islam [...]
Uzbekistan Focused on Developing Trade with Afghanistan
Via The Diplomat, a look at Tashkent’s efforts to increase trade cooperation with Afghanistan: Tashkent is set to become a dominant trade partner to Afghanistan as the two sides continue to [...]
Kazakhstan: A Lot Riding On Promise Of New Finance Center
Via Forbes, a report on Kazakhstan’s planned finance center: Kassym-Jomart Tokayev is the new president of Kazakhstan, and the country’s signature financial event, Astana Finance Days (AFD), [...]
Angola: Rare Glimmer of Hope In Fight Against Corruption
Via Ozy, an article on Angola: Not far from the flashy skyscrapers of downtown Luanda, the capital of one of Africa’s supposedly richest countries, is a public morgue. Celestino Chivava, who worked [...]

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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.