MSTRpay
MSTRpay evaluates Sri Lanka for South Asian expansion
MSTRpay is assessing opportunities in Sri Lanka as part of its emerging-markets development programme, focusing on potential institutional partnerships, digital...
LATAM
Brazil heads for presidential runoff as Flávio Bolsonaro finishes ahead of Lula
Brazil’s presidential election will go to a second round after far-right challenger Flávio Bolsonaro finished ahead of incumbent Luiz Inácio...
Financial insights
Asian markets start Monday higher as Japan leads gains
Asian equities began the trading week mostly...
On this day
On this day in 1969: The British television series Monty Python’s Flying Circus debuted on the BBC
On 5 October 1969, Monty Python’s Flying Circus made its debut on BBC1, introducing viewers to a style of comedy...
Ukraine vs Russia
Russian strike hits Kyiv bridge during Merz’s solidarity visit
Russia struck a major bridge in Kyiv on Sunday, 4 October, shortly after German Chancellor Friedrich Merz arrived on an...
Spain
Sánchez calls November election after housing measures fail in parliament
Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez has called an early general election for 29 November after parliament rejected his government’s emergency...
Deadly Catalonia floods disrupt transport and trigger recovery effort
Catalonia began the week facing widespread disruption after torrential weekend rain killed two people and left another missing. Flooding damaged...
‘This can’t go on’: tens of thousands protest against Spain’s housing crisis
Tens of thousands of people have taken to the streets across Spain demanding urgent action over soaring rents, evictions and...
AI - Tool or Threat?
The AI boom is being built in steel, gas, nuclear power and debt
Artificial intelligence is driving a physical construction boom extending far beyond software. Semiconductor factories, data centres, power stations and electricity...
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Latvia election
Latvia’s Kulbergs wins election as security concerns shape the vote
Latvian Prime Minister Andris Kulbergs has emerged as the clear winner of Saturday’s parliamentary election, with partial results putting his...
Africa
Ghana’s mobile-money economy reaches €345 billion as fintech becomes core infrastructure
Ghana’s mobile-money economy reached approximately €345 billion in transaction value during 2025, underlining how deeply digital finance has become embedded...
Ghana places gold at the centre of its currency strategy as GoldBod takes over FX role
Ghana is placing gold at the centre of its foreign-exchange strategy as the Ghana Gold Board, known as GoldBod, assumes...
Digital banking
Monzo seeks private equity backing after Nubank talks stall
British digital bank Monzo is exploring private equity investment after acquisition talks with Brazil’s Nubank broke down, the Financial Times...
US politics
Trump’s $20 million advertising campaign sparks taxpayer funding dispute
Taxpayer-funded television adverts celebrating Donald Trump have triggered demands for federal investigations just weeks before the US midterm elections. Democratic...
The Wallenbergs, 170 years of power
Newshub Finance launches investigative series on the Wallenberg sphere
NewsHub Finance is launching a major investigative series examining 170 years of money, industry and power within Sweden’s Wallenberg sphere....
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Middle east
Trump rejects Iran’s Hormuz offer as US military buildup raises risk of renewed war
The confrontation between Washington and Tehran is entering a more dangerous phase after Donald Trump rejected Iran’s latest proposal to...
Newshub Finance
Sánchez calls November election after housing measures fail in parliament
Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez has called an early general election for 29 November after parliament rejected his government’s emergency...
Indonesia
Indonesia’s Bank Jago expands AI use as digital banking grows
Indonesia’s Bank Jago has allocated approximately 5 billion rupiah to artificial intelligence as it seeks to improve lending assessments, fraud...
China - US
Russia pushes military spending above $200 billion as global arms race accelerates
Russia is preparing its largest defence budget since the full-scale invasion of Ukraine began. But when Moscow’s plans are compared...
Leapfrog economies
The Solar Projects Waiting for Finance: Odyssey’s Bid to Close the Gap
Odyssey Energy Solutions has raised $74 million to help smaller companies build solar projects across emerging markets. Its approach tackles...
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India
India’s digital payments forecast to reach 702 billion transactions
India’s digital payments market could reach approximately 702 billion transactions annually by the financial year ending March 2031, according to...
Blockchain
Blockchain moves towards everyday payments as Minisend expands into Kenya
Blockchain finance is moving closer to everyday use in East Africa as stablecoin settlement company Minisend expands its operations in...
Caribbean
Jamaica opens a new door for fintech innovation
Jamaica is expanding the infrastructure around its fintech economy, creating a new regulatory sandbox that will allow financial companies to...
Climate & Energy
The world is draining its water savings account
The world's rivers experienced one of their driest years in more than three decades in 2025, while freshwater stored in...
Newshub long read
Part Three – Kreuger, Wallenberg and the battle for Swedish industry
By the beginning of the 1930s, Sweden had two extraordinary centres of financial power. Ivar Kreuger had created an international...
Business of the week
From small Nigerian start-up to $250 billion fintech engine
Moniepoint began in Lagos in 2015 as a self-funded technology venture created by two Nigerian software engineers. Just over a...
Inside the scam - Serie
Inside the scam (Part 5): Can anyone stop the scam economy?
Online fraud has evolved into a global industry supported by trafficking networks, stolen identities, artificial intelligence and an international system...
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Financial inclusion
6. The infrastructure of freedom
Why financial inclusion deserves to stand alongside roads, schools and electricity as essential development infrastructure Every generation eventually discovers that...
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World Cup 2026
Latvia’s Kulbergs wins election as security concerns shape the vote
Latvian Prime Minister Andris Kulbergs has emerged as the clear winner of Saturday’s parliamentary election, with partial results putting his...
Trump in office
Trump’s crypto ventures generated more than US$1bn in 2025, financial filing reveals
Businesses linked to US President Donald Trump generated more than US$1 billion in revenue from cryptocurrency-related activities during 2025, according...
Serie - HIdden financial giants
Russia pushes military spending above $200 billion as global arms race accelerates
Russia is preparing its largest defence budget since the full-scale invasion of Ukraine began. But when Moscow’s plans are compared...