Doors Open to Foreign Banks in Somalia After Half-Century Absence
Via Bloomberg, a report on growing investor interest in Somalia: Kenyan banks are competing against lenders from Gulf nations seeking licenses to operate in Somalia as the strife-torn country opens [...]
India and Iran: Changing The Great Game
Via The Diplomat, an interesting look at how the Chabahar port in Iran has the potential to alter the dynamics of “The Great Game” for good: The historic pact between India and Iran recently [...]
‘Owning’ A Home In North Korea
Via NK News, an interesting look at ‘owning’ a home in North Korea, where esidency rights and restrictions on moving means one all but owns the place: The North Korean law makes it quite clear: [...]
India’s $500 Million Port Deal with Iran
Via Quartz, a look at India’s $500m deal to develop Iran’s Chabahar port and plan to invest an additional $16 billion in the Chabahar free trade zone: Barely five months after the US and [...]
Cuba Legalizes Small and Medium Private Businesses
Via BBC, a report on Cuba’s legalization of small- and medium-sized private businesses: Cuba’s government has announced that it is legalising small and medium-sized private businesses. It [...]
India: Watching China’s New Silk Road Corridor Closely
Courtesy of the Financial Times, an article examining India’s growing angst over China’s regional involvement: Chinese labourers work on the Karakoram highway in northern Pakistan Talk [...]

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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.