Ruchir Sharma, the money manager renowned for his against-consensus, bearish stance on Chinese stocks ahead of the market’s plunge in 2015, is out on a limb once more – this time with a bullish position on Europe. Continue reading Morgan Stanley’s Sharma Takes Pro-EU Contrarian Bet on Poland to Romania
We are very excited to be launching our new monthly OnFrontiers Webinar Series. Kicking off this series is our webinar on; “What’s next? The New Wave of Innovations in Africa’s Mobile Financial Services” OnFrontiers spoke with our moderator for the … Continue reading What’s next? The New Wave of Innovations in Africa’s Mobile Financial Services
Startup-driven development In frontier markets, gaining access to finance has traditionally been a hindrance for most consumers. Perceived as not being credit-worthy, they are ignored by formal lending institutions and have to rely on other, non-formal, sources of credit. A rapid change is underway, however, due to technological advances that allow credit firms to analyze non-financial data to identify credit-worthy consumers that were previously invisible in the system. Interestingly, startups are driving the development of big data models and algorithms for mobile banking. By mining data on mobile networks, they are able to drive … Continue reading The Big Data Credit Revolution in Frontier Markets