Capital Finance International

12/01/2026

Global growth in 2025 has held up, but the US economy is splitting in two: AI-led capital gains at the top, weak job creation and squeezed incomes below. A K-shaped recovery endures. By
Otaviano Canuto - Center for Macroeconomics and Development
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Global GDP growth has proven resilient in 2025, despite the shocks caused by the trade policies implemented by United States President Donald Trump in the first year after his return to office.

08/01/2026

Trump vows to block Wall Street giants from buying single-family homes—markets flinch, housing politics heats up. For PE landlords, regulatory risk is now underwriting.
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A proposal to bar large institutional investors from buying single-family homes has jolted real-estate equities and reopened a long-running political argument: is housing unaffordable because capital is crowding out families—or

05/01/2026

Venezuela has shifted from chronic political risk to acute event risk. The reopening trade is no longer theoretical — but investability will hinge on governance, sanctions and credibility.
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The overnight capture of Nicolás Maduro has jolted geopolitics — and, almost immediately, reset the investment debate around Venezuela’s reopening. For global capital, the question is no longer whether a

02/01/2026

Rolex didn’t fight flippers with volume or discounts. It professionalised resale, turned trust into a premium, and reasserted control over authenticity and value.
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Rolex has finally confronted the watch flipper economy — not by flooding the market or cutting prices, but by tightening control over trust in a resale ecosystem awash with counterfeits

29/12/2025

When batteries hit ~$65/MWh LCOS, “reliability” stops being a fossil edge. Cheap solar by day, stored power by night. Economics flipped:

By the end of 2025, the energy transition’s most persistent objection — that renewables cannot be relied upon when the sun sets and the wind drops — looked far less

23/12/2025

Battery storage costs have crossed a tipping point. As solar and wind become reliable capacity, the case for gas peakers is starting to erode.
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For years, the energy transition was argued as much on ideology as on engineering. Supporters framed renewables as a moral imperative; critics framed them as an expensive, unreliable add-on that

22/12/2025

Universal Trustees (UTPL): Excellence in Structuring Generational Wealth India 2025
Read here: https://cfi.co/awards/asia-pacific/2025/universal-trustees-utpl-excellence-in-structuring-generational-wealth-india-2025/

18/12/2025

Accenture on Saudi Arabia’s AI Revolution: Leading the Next Wave of Enterprise Transformation
By Omar Boulos - Accenture’s CEO of Middle East & Africa
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As the global technology landscape undergoes a seismic shift with the rise of agentic AI, Saudi Arabia stands at a pivotal crossroads. Accenture’s Technology Vision 2025 report highlights how enterprises

15/12/2025

‘Sanaenomics’: The Abenomics 2.0 Shift from Deflation to Security
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The economic platform of Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi, quickly dubbed ‘Sanaenomics’, is not a radical break but a clear continuation and evolution of the policies pioneered by her mentor, Shinzō

12/12/2025

We’re delighted to share that Equiom has been recognised with a hat-trick of global awards in 2025! 🎉

Our team has been honoured for excellence in:

🏆 Family Office Governance
🏆 Succession Planning Advisory
🏆 Private Wealth Structuring Solutions – Global

These awards from WealthBriefing, eprivateclient and Capital Finance International highlight the hard work of our people across Jersey, Guernsey, the Isle of Man, Asia, Europe and the Middle East, and our commitment to supporting families and family offices around the world.

You can read the full press release here: https://bit.ly/4oGXWLD

11/12/2025

Decoding Sanae Takaichi’s Unyielding Conservatism
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Sanae Takaichi’s rise to become Japan’s first female Prime Minister has inevitably earned her a sobriquet that evokes both admiration and trepidation: “The Iron Lady of Japan.” This comparison to

08/12/2025

Sanae Takaichi – Becoming Japan’s First Female Prime Minister
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The election of Sanae Takaichi as the President of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) in October 2025, and her subsequent appointment as Prime Minister, marks a watershed moment in Japanese