Business news for companies exposed to more than one country: trade route disruption, currency moves and capital controls, foreign investment screening, expropriation and nationalization, and sanctions compliance obligations. Each item identifies the jurisdictions involved and the operational decision it forces. Written for executives, counsel and risk teams working internationally.
A fixed quota, not the size of the crisis, sets the ceiling on every IMF rescue — and the current effort to resize those quotas has now missed two deadlines.
Christopher Lee · August 12, 2026
The G20's Common Framework was meant to make debt workouts orderly — Zambia, Ghana and Sri Lanka showed how slow orderly can be.
Christopher Lee · August 5, 2026
Central banks hold tens of thousands of tonnes of bullion, and the audit question — whose vaults, whose count — has toppled reputations before.
Christopher Lee · July 14, 2026
IMEC, the Middle Corridor and Chinese belt roads are geography negotiated in summit declarations, and their freight volumes tell the honest score.
Christopher Lee · June 21, 2026
Remittances passed 800 billion dollars a year heading to low- and middle-income countries — several times official aid — and the corridors have their own economics.
Christopher Lee · May 29, 2026