Issue 01 . June 2026Loose change. Sharp eyes.
Souk.Weekly Magazine

financial services.

4 pieces filed under financial services

BusinessJun 4
The Regional Bank Branch Has Quietly Become a Museum Piece. Souk Weekly business.

The Regional Bank Branch Has Quietly Become a Museum Piece

Why the marble lobbies are still being built, even as the actual banking has moved elsewhere, and what the lobbies are now actually for.

By Marcus Okafor

BusinessJun 3
The Regional Spreadsheet Has Quietly Become a Cultural Object. Souk Weekly business.

The Regional Spreadsheet Has Quietly Become a Cultural Object

Inside the unstoppable rise of a particular file format among a particular cohort of regional professional women, and why the rest of us should pay attention.

By Sara Qureshi

WorldJun 3
Central Asia Is Quietly the Next Pipeline of Pipelines. Souk Weekly world. Photograph keyed to samarkand.

Central Asia Is Quietly the Next Pipeline of Pipelines

Why a region nobody in Gulf finance was thinking about three years ago is suddenly on every infrastructure desk's whiteboard.

By Marcus Okafor

WorldJun 3
The Diaspora Is Banking Differently. The Banks Have Not Quite Noticed.. Souk Weekly world. Photograph keyed to bank.

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