Lowering the Cost of Serving Clients with Shared AI Infrastructure
A shared AI infrastructure, an AI Commons, could help lenders, insurers, and agricultural businesses lower costs and serve small businesses and farmers better.
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AI in Finance: Bridging the Inclusion Gap
A 2024 white paper on how banks, microfinance institutions and cooperatives can adopt AI, in eight steps.
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Compute Accounts for 91 Percent of Disclosed AI Commitments Tracked in Emerging Markets
Compute accounts for 91 percent of the USD 3.79 billion in AI commitments signed across five emerging-market regions from 1 August to 25 September 2026. One USD 3.1 billion loan drives the value; applications closed 15 of 25 deals.
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Out of the Box Skills to Support Investors: September 2026
35 ready-to-install AI skills for investors across Claude, ChatGPT and Copilot, with seven new this month.
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Necessary, Not Sufficient: What $42.8 Billion in AI Capital Doesn’t Buy Emerging Markets
We traced USD 42.8 billion in AI capital across five emerging-market regions. 94% of it funds compute infrastructure. That is worth celebrating, and compute is necessary. But it does not, by itself, produce a local AI company, a usable dataset, a skilled workforce or an institution capable of buying and governing an AI system. Those things have to be financed separately, and right now, they largely are not.
