Emerging Markets

South Korea has recently been experiencing economic instability. The country is struggling to return to pre-pandemic levels, due to slowing global trade and suppressed employment within service sectors. The ongoing Russia-Ukraine conflict has significantly impacted Korean businesses through sanctions leading to payment delays and withdrawal from trading with Russia. The Bank of Korea has also…

The inevitable impact of school closures on the ed-tech industry in Asia has been evident through the rapid growth of companies since the beginning of the pandemic. This is supported by the dramatic increase in shares for GSX, a Chinese online education provider, which jumped 92% from the start of 2020 to March and reported…

Following the 26th of January, the Federal Reserve announced that it was going to keep its interest rates steady, however, onlookers expect several central bank rate hikes for 2022. Contrastingly, the People’s Bank of China (PBOC) recently cut policy interest rates for the first time since April 2020. A tightening labour market and inflationary pressures…

China’s property market has undoubtedly been a key driver of its economy ever since the country began opening its markets in the 1980s, and still proves to be a major contributor to the economy; estimated to make up 17-29% of GDP. The country has been reported to have been constructing more than 10 million residential…

Swiggy, which was founded in 2014, is an Indian-based start-up offering a delivery service called Instamart. The firm was the second-fastest Indian company to become a unicorn start-up, reaching a valuation of over 1 billion USD in just under four years in June 2018. This year, in January 2022, they reached a valuation of 10.7…

Getir is a Turkish-based delivery app founded in 2015. Recently it has grown rapidly, with the firm’s workforce now consisting of over 30,000 employees worldwide. The service has already launched within the U.S.A. in Boston, Chicago and New York as well as throughout Europe in the U.K., Germany, Italy, France, Spain, Portugal, and the Netherlands.…

The recently identified Omicron COVID-19 variant has already threatened to intensify supply shortages and inflation, with the OECD’s inflation predictions for 2022 having been amended and revised upwards, making its impending toll on the global economy indisputable. Amongst such impacts, a particular development that will be interesting is the variant’s ramifications for India’s economy.  During…

Softbank is a Japanese based company that invests in a variety of different sectors including energy, financial services, and technology. Recently, they have been investing in and acquiring many different companies around the world, many of which are developing new technologies, having invested a total of around US$84 billion into start-ups throughout the past four…