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Financial Brief: A Weekly Roundup on the Geopolitics of Money | Mar 04
EXECUTIVE TAKEAWAYS
This week, the Iran conflict reshaped markets and exposed vulnerabilities. The dollar surged near three-month highs as the euro collapsed to $1.1590 on...
Financial Brief: A Weekly Roundup on the Geopolitics of Money | Feb 24
EXECUTIVE TAKEAWAYS
This week, legal frameworks and geopolitical threats overrode economics. Trump replaced struck-down IEEPA tariffs with Section 122 duties citing a balance-of-payments crisis economists...
Why We Raised Capital to Build Innovative Technology — Not Just to Grow Faster
By Aleksandr Katsuba, Co-Founder, MyCredit
When fintech companies talk about investments, the conversation often gets stuck on the size of the round or the instrument...
ECB’s Lagarde signals no imminent exit as politics and central banks collide
European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde reassured her colleagues that she remains committed to her position and would inform them first if she planned...
Who will lead the ECB? Succession talk turns to Knot and De Cos
The former governors of the Spanish and Dutch central banks, Klaas Knot and Pablo Hernandez de Cos, are seen as the top candidates to...
Financial Brief: A Weekly Roundup on the Geopolitics of Money | Feb 17
EXECUTIVE TAKEAWAYS
A week of cautious markets and sovereign stress. Asian equities traded tentatively as oil rose on U.S.-Iran talks, with markets pricing de-escalation before...
Financial Brief: A Weekly Roundup on the Geopolitics of Money | Feb 03
EXECUTIVE TAKEAWAYS
This week, the global economy sent mixed signals. Manufacturing rebounded across key economies as tariff fears eased, but Wall Street seesawed as a...
Who is Kevin Warsh? Five key facts about the top Fed chair contender
U. S. President Donald Trump has announced he will nominate Kevin Warsh, a former Federal Reserve governor, to be the Fed Chair in May,...
BRICS Payment Settlement: The Quest and Implications
Amid escalating tariff threats, economic sanctions, disorderly payment settlements, currency and liquidity stress, and compliance-driven de-risking in an intensifying geopolitical churn, the RBI’s call...
Struggling to open a bank account as a startup? How Shokran simplifies online registration
Many startups in the UAE secure their trade license in days, yet spend weeks — or even months — trying to gain access to...