payments
13 articles tagged payments.
Slow Invoices Are Becoming a Working-Capital Tax
The cost of late payment is no longer a back-office annoyance. In tighter credit conditions it behaves like a tax on smaller suppliers.
By Marcus Okafor · Jun 9
Markets Reopen and a Quiet Shift in Fixed Income Is Already Visible
Equity benchmarks drew the morning attention. The more informative story sat one screen over, in flows that traders said had been preparing through the long weekend.
By Marcus Okafor · Jun 2
BusinessWhy Regional Fund Flows Suddenly Favor a Different Kind of Fintech
The capital is still flowing into fintech. The category mix has shifted in ways that should reshape what gets funded over the next two cycles.
By Marcus Okafor · May 30
PoliticsIt Is Time to End the Imperial Recess Calendar
The legislative calendar was designed for a country that no longer exists. Pretending otherwise is producing the politics we keep complaining about.
By Diego Arroyo · May 30
WorldWhat Latin American Currency Interventions Are Quietly Telling Us
The interventions look small in isolation. Their pattern across several central banks is the part worth reading carefully.
By Lena Holloway · May 30
BusinessRegional Banking Is Concentrating in Ways the Numbers Are Just Starting to Show
A quieter consolidation is reshaping the regional banking landscape. Practitioners say the visible mergers are only part of the picture.
By Marcus Okafor · May 30
PoliticsThe Capitol Is Quietly Losing the People Who Actually Write the Laws
Why congressional staff retention has fallen far enough to compromise the institution itself, and why both parties should treat it as a first-order concern.
By Diego Arroyo · Oct 18
BusinessThe Office-to-Apartment Pipeline Is Real. Here Is Where the Math Actually Works.
What conversions can and cannot fix for the cities banking on them, and which incentives are doing the work that distressed pricing alone is not.
By Marcus Okafor · Sep 9
BusinessThe Private-Credit Partner Who Built a Practice on Saying No
Inside the underwriting discipline that compounded through three cycles by passing on the deals other funds quietly went on to finance and lose money on.
By Sara Qureshi · Apr 20
BusinessThe Banks Passed the Stress Tests. The Footnote Is Where the Story Lives.
What regulators wrote about commercial real estate that the headline numbers were carefully designed not to say.
By Marcus Okafor · Feb 14
WorldMost of Latin America's Currencies Are Quietly Calmer. A Few Are Anything But.
Why the regional aggregate masks meaningful divergence between economies that anchored their monetary policy and the ones still working through credibility issues.
By Lena Holloway · Jun 24
WorldThe World Bank Is Quietly Testing a Different Way to Pay for Adaptation
Inside the pilot instruments that aim to disburse against verifiable outcomes, and what the early operational reality is teaching about the limits of the approach.
By Lena Holloway · Jun 12
BusinessPrivate Credit Just Set Another Record. The Banks Are the Quiet Story.
Why mid-market borrowers are paying meaningfully more in exchange for execution certainty, and what regulators are quietly starting to look at.
By Marcus Okafor · Feb 21