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It's a big world out there and much of what happens never shows up in your usual news feeds. FMN's New Frontiers is a podcast for people who are curious about the trends and stories unfolding beyond the glare of global media. After almost a decade covering global markets at the Wall Street Journal, Dan Keeler brings his incisive curiosity to a new medium. On FMN's podcast you'll hear concise, insightful interviews with some of the people shaping the future of the oft-ignored countries where more than half the world's population lives, works, aspires, struggles and dreams.
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Nigeria’s Securities and Exchange Commission is spearheading efforts to create a more transparent, welcoming investment environment. We talk to ’Timi Agama, Director General of the SEC and one of the key architects of Nigeria’s new Investments and Securities Act, about building investor confidence in Nigeria’s markets, and potentially unleashing a flood of domestic and international capital.We also discuss the leading global role Nigeria hopes to play in the future of digital assets.
Tarik Senhaji, the CEO of the Casablanca Stock Exchange in Morocco, joins us to talk about Morocco’s role in West Africa and beyond, the stock exchange’s ingenious strategy for encouraging more firms to list, and the impact of generational change in Morocco.
Florizelle Lisser, the head of the US-based Corporate Council on Africa, joins us to talk about new opportunities emerging for American companies to invest into Africa. She also shares some unique insights about investment trends—and how to tap into funding from development finance institutions.
Deep in the Colombian Amazon, a group of indigenous leaders are working to protect and restore the rainforest using innovative techniques funded by carbon- and biodiversity credits.
We talk to Drea Burbank, founder of grassroots conservation-focused B-Corp Savimbo, which is helping create a new market for authentic, verifiable credits that can channel funding direct to the people stewarding the forest.
The World Bank’s private-sector investing arm, the IFC, is pushing into deep-tech investing to help supercharge its efforts to support equitable and sustainable development around the world.
We talk to Bill Sonneborn, the IFC’s director of disruptive technologies and funds, about green steel, AI, learning technology and opportunities for smaller emerging markets to benefit from breakthrough technologies.
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