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.
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.
Exchange rates are prices, set by supply and demand with help from interest differentials and trade flows, plus occasional central bank intervention. The BIS counted $7.5 trillion of daily trading in April 2022.
Valentina Sokolov · October 19, 2026
Most headlines are noise. A handful of indicators, read with patience, map directly onto hiring, pricing, and inventory decisions.
Christopher Lee · September 29, 2026
Licensing, lists, end-use tests and extraterritorial reach: the machinery that decides which machines, chips and know-how can leave a country.
Christopher Lee · September 13, 2026
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