EUREP Goes Global: The ECB’s Quiet Lender of Last Resort

The European Central Bank has begun onboarding non-euro-area central banks to its enhanced EUREP repo facility. For the first time,

Banco Azteca: Advancing Financial Inclusion Through Access, Education, and Trust

Banco Azteca has built a distinctive position in Mexico by serving working- and middle-class customers who have historically been overlooked

Alejandro Valenzuela: Turning Financial Access into Lasting Capability

Banco Azteca Chairman of the Board Alejandro Valenzuela believes financial inclusion must extend far beyond access to accounts and credit.

Rules over Discretion: What a Chinese-Owned Lithium Expansion Says About Argentina’s Investment Regime

A US$709m expansion of a Chinese-owned lithium project has cleared RIGI, Argentina’s incentive regime for large investments. The approval suggests

SPP AI Governance Framework: What “Human Oversight” Now Has to Mean

The Society of Pension Professionals’ new framework, Governance in the Age of AI, argues that artificial intelligence needs no new

Buying Credibility: The Hiking Cycle That Keeps Indonesia’s Convergence Funded

Three increases since May, 100 basis points in all, one of them off-cycle. Bank Indonesia has charged domestic borrowers a

Free, Capped and Contagious: Why a US Tariff Could Not Stop Pix Going Global

Brazil’s public payments rail has been named in a US Section 301 tariff action for the very design choices that

Earning Through a War: UAE Lenders Bank Records in a Quarter of Conflict

UAE lenders posted record first-half profits through a quarter of regional war, Hormuz shipping disruption and rate uncertainty. At bank

The Two-Tier Tariff: Washington Prices Labour Standards into Trade

The Section 301 action that took effect on 24 July prices a social standard into trade policy for the first

The IMF’s Wartime Audit of the UAE: What Gulf Resilience Is Made Of

The Fund’s July health-check names the buffers and instruments that let a diversified Gulf economy absorb a regional war. The

Singapore: Where the AI Capex Boom Becomes GDP

Singapore’s advance estimate puts second-quarter growth at 5.7 per cent, with manufacturing up 12.2 per cent on what the trade

The IMF’s Crosscurrents Update: Africa Is on the Wrong Side of Both Shocks, and Still Outgrowing the World

The July World Economic Outlook Update barely moves the Fund’s Africa forecasts, and its baseline has already been overtaken: the