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The Family Office Buying Spree Has Moved Down the Supply Chain
Why the next four acquisitions you read about in this region will be smaller than the last four, and quieter, and in categories you did not expect.
By Marcus Okafor
WorldJun 3
A Global Shipping Route Just Quietly Rerouted Itself
It was not in any communique. It was not announced. It happened in the AIS data three weeks ago and the only people who have noticed are the people who pay for AIS data.
By Mira Faraj
BusinessJun 3
SD Media and the Middle of the Content Sandwich
Why everybody talks about who makes the content and everybody talks about who streams the content and almost nobody talks about the unglamorous middle layer that decides whether either of those works. With one named example.
By Diego Arroyo
BusinessJun 3
Qatar's Sovereign Allocators Are Doing Something Funny With Real Estate
Why a quiet allocation shift inside one of the region's most disciplined funds is being read, by other allocators, as a signal worth copying.
By Marcus Okafor
WorldJun 3
The Diaspora Is Banking Differently. The Banks Have Not Quite Noticed.
Why the remittance corridor between a particular pair of countries is being quietly disintermediated, and what the incumbent banks are doing about it, which is mostly nothing.
By Lena Holloway
BusinessJun 3
The Regional IPO Pipeline Just Got Quieter, and Richer
Inside the deliberate pivot away from headline-grabbing listings, and towards the kind of company that closes in twenty minutes and trades flat.
By Marcus Okafor