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Sovereign Debt
2026-09-30 · 9 min read
The Common Framework Is Working — Slowly. What Borrowers Should Negotiate While They Wait.
Restructurings under the G20 Common Framework take years. The countries that fare best treat the waiting period as a working window, not a pause.
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Blended Finance
First-Loss Capital Is Not a Discount — Designing Tranches That Actually Mobilize Investors
Most blended finance facilities fail at the design stage because the first-loss tranche is sized by political preference, not by the project's actual risk distribution.
2026-08-18 · 11 min read · K. Adeyemi
Geopolitical StrategyReading ECOWAS Before the Gazette: Three Signals That Precede Regulatory Shifts
Regulatory change in West African markets rarely arrives unannounced. The signals are visible months earlier — if the monitoring network is local.
2026-07-05 · 8 min read · F. Diallo