Semafor • Nov 19, 2025
AI fintech Optasia eyes major Africa expansion
The company uses machine learning to provide micro-financing and mobile phone credit to people who often don't have traditional bank accounts.
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Semafor • Nov 19, 2025
Africa needs more green financing to unlock growth: report
Productivity growth in Angola, Nigeria, South Africa, and Zambia has slowed over the last decade, S&P noted.
Semafor • Nov 19, 2025
Trump’s deals with Saudi are a two-way street
Saudi Arabia’s economic transformation intersects with the business interests of the first billionaire US president.
Semafor • Nov 19, 2025
Investors eye Nvidia results amid bubble fears
Markets have suffered sharp losses in recent days on growing fears of an AI bubble.
Semafor • Nov 19, 2025
Jamaica says $10B needed to rebuild after Hurricane Melissa
Jamaica issued a call at COP30 for wealthy nations to boost financing for poorer ones to help adapt to climate change.
Semafor • Nov 19, 2025
G20 should focus on debt refinancing for poorer countries, experts say
The panel said developing nations needed immediate debt relief, with interest payments ballooning in recent years amid rising inflation.
Semafor • Nov 18, 2025
Conflict with China would devastate pharmaceutical supply chain, Biden’s drug czar says
"It will be like having car factories without car parts," Dr. Rahul Gupta said at Semafor’s Future of Health Forum.
Semafor • Nov 18, 2025
Trump's SEC entices corporate America to defy shareholders
SEC Chair Paul Atkins said the agency will “not respond to… and express no views on” companies’ decisions to exclude shareholder proposals from corporate ballots.
Semafor • Nov 18, 2025
Economists spar over Lina Khan's plan to cut stadium beer prices
The former FTC commissioner's role in NYC Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani’s affordability efforts is part of a new romance with price controls.
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Michigan Lawsuit Calls Big Oil a “Cartel” That’s Driving High Energy Bills
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Why corporate America is mostly staying quiet as federal immigration agents show up at its doors
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Has Little Caesars Arena boosted economic activity in Detroit? We looked at hotel and short-term rental industry data to find out
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Bad Bunny, Billionaires, and the Business of Sports
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Data centers told to pitch in as storms and cold weather boost power demand
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Denmark’s generous child care and parental leave policies erase 80% of the ‘motherhood penalty’ for working moms
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Ignoring China’s Poverty Alleviation Success Is Costing Us All
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3 things to know about Kevin Warsh, Trump’s nod for Fed chair
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Mamdani Announces New Settlement Securing Backpay for Delivery Workers
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