Friday Five

With 99% of votes counted, leftist Castillo leads rightist Fujimori 50.2% to 49.8%. We look at what a leftist shift could mean for investors.

Four of the top five politicians who score highest in polls likely all represent a continuation of Duterte's domestic policies, if not his personal style and rhetoric.

El Salvador’s president, Nayib Bukele, said last weekend that he plans to make bitcoin legal tender. This makes it the first country to do so, but others could follow...

In 2012, Nigeria set an ambitious target: to reduce the number of adult Nigerians without access to financial services to 20% (from 40%) by 2020. But its latest financial inclusion report showed it failed.

Vietnam is a promising market for fintechs given its combination of low financial inclusion and high tech sophistication. Funding access has improved, but the ecosystem is skewed to payments and lending, with insurtech and investech underdeveloped.