In Stockholm, a Northern Alliance of CEOs Sets Out to Rewire Global Finance
Stockholm has long been a city where ideas travel easily between science, capital, and public purpose. This week, it leaned fully into that identity. More than 80 chief executives and senior leaders from the Nordic, Baltic, and Arctic regions gathered in the Swedish capital to launch the Origination Finance Studios, a new initiative designed to […]
Owen Lozman and the Capital Architecture of the Quantum Age
Quantum technology has crossed a threshold. What was once an academic frontier is now a strategic imperative. Owen Lozman, Managing Partner of 55 North, has emerged as one of the central figures shaping how that future will be financed. From Copenhagen, Lozman is leading what is widely regarded as the world’s largest dedicated pure-play quantum […]
Latin America’s Answer to Davos Begins Tomorrow in Panama
A Regional Forum at a Global Inflection Point Panama City takes center stage tomorrow as leaders from across government, finance, and industry convene for the International Economic Forum Latin America and the Caribbean 2026, a high-level gathering designed to reposition the region amid profound shifts in the global economic order. Convened by CAF – Development […]
America Walks Away From Paris — And the Climate Map Quietly Shifts
Today is the day it becomes official. The United States has formally exited the Paris Agreement, completing a yearlong withdrawal process and severing its participation in the world’s most consequential climate accord. With the notification period concluded, Washington is now outside the legal framework that has guided global climate cooperation since 2015. It is a […]
SDG News Spotlight: Sergio Díaz-Granados Guida and the Power Shift in Global Development
In a world where tariffs are rewriting alliances and trade is once again a tool of statecraft, few development leaders sit closer to the intersection of finance, diplomacy, and geopolitics than Sergio Díaz‑Granados Guida. As Executive President of CAF – Development Bank of Latin America and the Caribbean, Díaz-Granados is helping reposition Latin America and […]
Historic EU–India Trade Deal Signals New Global Trade Order
A Deal Decades in the Making For nearly two decades, trade negotiators from Europe and India circled one another, meeting, pausing, restarting, and retreating again. On January 27, that long courtship ended. The European Union and India reached a sweeping free trade agreement that leaders on both sides now describe as one of the most […]
A Small Sell, a Bigger Signal: What Nordic Pension Funds Are Saying About U.S. Stability
A quiet but consequential recalibration is underway in Northern Europe. Some of the region’s largest pension funds are reducing or exiting U.S. Treasury holdings, signaling that geopolitical risk and political volatility are now being weighed alongside yield and liquidity in long term portfolio decisions. The moves come amid heightened transatlantic tension over Greenland, fiscal uncertainty […]
Myanmar Election Sparks Global Outcry as Junta-Backed Party Claims Victory
Myanmar’s first national election since the military seized power in 2021 has concluded with a decisive claimed victory for the military-aligned Union Solidarity and Development Party, a result that has been swiftly rejected by much of the international community as lacking credibility. The vote, conducted in phases from late December through January, unfolded against the […]
The Red Line Moment: Trump’s 100 Percent Tariff Tests the Limits of Trade Power
President Donald Trump has been rewriting the rules of global trade for more than a year, using tariffs not as a last resort but as a first response. What makes his latest threat toward Canada different is not the tactic. It is the target and the scale. A proposed 100 percent tariff on Canadian goods […]
New Zealand Bets on the Quantum Frontier
Wellington moves to turn deep science into economic muscle WELLINGTON — In a modest line item with outsized ambition, the New Zealand government has committed NZ $1.35 million to chart a national pathway into quantum and photonic technologies. The goal is not abstract discovery alone, but something more pragmatic and political: jobs, productivity and a […]
