We have previously highlighted the importance of payments infrastructure in accelerating e-commerce in emerging markets and the strong growth that some of these payment infrastructures companies are seeing. In 2020, the company targets solid revenue...

Pandemic-related lockdowns, flight cancellations, and border closures may be putting a crimp on summer vacation plans. However, the precipitous drop in tourism will have an outsized impact on countries that rely on foreign travelers—with potentially...

Covid-19 remains a significant economic challenge across the continent. This combination of factors is best demonstrated in Mauritius, the region's worst performer, where the FX rate has depreciated c10% ytd, Moody's sovereign credit outlook was down...

In 2006 I was an analyst on global technology equities. This would be unwelcomed for the investment case given the military’s continuing, overbearing indirect grip on the economy and the strain put on the fiscal deficit from Covid-19 disruption. Equi...

We calculated correlations between a range of emerging (EM) and frontier (FEM, FM ex-GCC and GCC) equity indices and global commodity prices (S&P GSCI), oil price (Brent), the inverse of the US$, and developed market equities (MSCI World) over time p...

The risk of an overseas vacation is that we are forced into quarantine either on arrival or on return should we contract Covid-19 or venture to a country where policy is focused on lifting lockdowns, rather than minimising infections (see Death by Co...