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Two Weeks Ago, Emerging Markets Hit a Record High. One Fed Speech Erased It.
Kevin Warsh's first Jackson Hole address as Fed chair reversed two weeks of market optimism in a single session — rate-hike odds roughly doubled, gold posted its worst day in over a month, and the dollar surged. The move matters far beyond Wall Street: a stronger dollar and higher-for-longer US rates raise the cost of every dollar-denominated debt and import bill on the African continent, at the exact moment several governments are trying to wean themselves off external financing.
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Africa Spent a Decade Building Digital Banking. Fraudsters Needed Six Months to Weaponise It.
African banks digitised at record speed to reach the unbanked — and created one of the world's fastest-growing attack surfaces in the process. AI-powered fraud is now outrunning the defences, and only 7% of institutions are prepared. Here is what is happening, how it works, and what every entrepreneur and investor in the digital economy needs to understand right now.
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