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How Emerging Markets Are Building Their Own Payment Rails
Episode 118 looks beyond the big EM ETF flows to examine a quiet revolution: emerging markets building domestic payment systems that bypass the dollar-denominated card networks. Lucas and Luna use Taiwan’s recent 4.8% sell-off and India’s UPI as entry points, then drill into how countries like Indonesia, Brazil, and Nigeria are launching national QR-code rails and instant-payment schemes. They discuss the economic logic – lower costs, sovereign data control, and resilience against dollar-based sanctions – and what it means for global investors who have long taken Visa and Mastercard for…
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