Financial insights

Nigeria is providing a striking example of the leapfrog economy in action. Africa’s largest-ever share offering is using fintech platforms,...

Global financial markets ended Friday with sharply different performances across regions, as Asian equities advanced, European shares retreated and Wall...

Africa bypassed millions of landlines by moving directly to mobile phones. It bypassed parts of conventional banking through mobile money....

Panama’s UniBank is expanding digital banking beyond domestic accounts, launching a new cross-border payment service aimed at giving small and...

Asian equity markets opened broadly higher on Friday, with shares in Japan, South Korea, Hong Kong and mainland China advancing...

India is accelerating one of its most ambitious industrial projects: building a domestic semiconductor industry capable of moving beyond assembly...

Brazil’s central bank has cut interest rates for a fifth consecutive meeting, taking the benchmark Selic rate to 13.75 per...

Asian markets opened mixed but with a modest upward bias on Thursday as investors absorbed the Federal Reserve’s first interest-rate...

Grab's $1.49 billion deal for Atome Financial turns Southeast Asia's superapp race into a battle for consumer finance. What began...

Global equity markets ended Tuesday under broad pressure as surging oil prices, rising government bond yields and uncertainty ahead of...