With just a few days left in 2025, emerging markets remain the focus of investors’ attention, who see significant economic potential in these subregions.

Focus Economics analysts have studied the situation in each group of countries, identifying some of the trends that will characterize them, at least at the beginning of 2026.

• Asia-Pacific: the region will remain one of the fastest growing economically, driven by sectors such as tourism, information technology and electronics, as well as business-friendly policies, high levels of education, and still robust population growth.
• Latin America: It is likely to remain the slowest-growing emerging market next year, due in part to its relatively high GDP per capita. This “reduces the scope for rapid convergence growth.” Political instability, weak education systems, corruption, violence, and a limited presence in high-growth sectors will persist in the region.
• Sub-Saharan Africa: This market is projected to surpass Asia-Pacific as the fastest-growing region globally, with sustained growth of 4.1 %. It will be marked by the world’s fastest population growth rate. As a result, annual growth is expected to reach 2.4 % by 2026, impacting regional output per capita.
• Middle East and North Africa: The Middle East and North Africa (MENA) axis will experience rapid expansion in 2026, driven by increased OPEC oil production quotas.
• Eastern Europe and Central Asia: According to analysts, this will be the second slowest-growing emerging market region in 2026, similar to Latin America, due in part to the fact that “many Eastern European economies — especially those belonging to the EU — are converging or have already converged toward GDP per capita levels of developed economies, leaving less room for convergence growth.” Furthermore, more moderate oil and gas prices compared to 2025 could become a drawback by limiting public spending in energy-exporting countries.

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Peru will host the APEC 2024 Summit for the third time, from November 13 to 15, with the participation of the member countries: Australia, Brunei Darussalam, Canada, Chile, People’s Republic of China, Hong Kong, China, Indonesia, Japan, Republic of Korea, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, Peru, Philippines, Russia, Singapore, Chinese Taipei, Thailand, the United States, and Vietnam.

The summit is chaired by Fernando Zavala, president of the APEC CEO Summit 2024 and CEO of Intercorp. From the end of 2023 and throughout 2024, the host country has the responsibility of “organizing more than 160 meetings” adhering to the work calendar and the practices and standards of the forum.

The forum was created in 1989 in order to promote open trade between members, as well as economic cooperation in the Asia-Pacific axis. Currently, it represents 54 % of the world’s GDP and 44% of global trade.

Peru hosted APEC in 2008 and 2016. In 2024, it once again has the responsibility of hosting representatives of the world’s 22 leading economies, with the opportunity to promote itself as an “attractive destination for investment, trade, tourism, and business.”

It is expected that through the 160 meetings on the agenda, in which representatives from the business sector, trade and foreign relations participate, they will promote post-pandemic economic recovery and encourage “income opportunities for sectors linked to lodging, transportation, food, tourism, among others.”

APEC Peru 2024 will be the ideal framework for “the exchange of successful cases and good practices in the application of public policies in matters such as inclusive trade and investment; innovation to promote the transition to the formal and global economy; food security; the internationalization of SMEs; the economic empowerment of women; the digital economy and financial inclusion; the use of renewable energies and green hydrogen.”

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Visa has signed a definitive agreement to acquire the Brazilian ‘fintech’ Pismo, which has operations in the regions of Latin America, Asia Pacific and Europe, for a total amount of 1,000 million dollars (about 914 million euros).

With the acquisition of Pismo, Visa will be positioned to provide central banking and issuer processing capabilities across debit, prepaid, credit and commercial cards for customers through cloud-native technologies. Pismo’s platform will also enable Visa to provide support and connectivity for emerging payment lanes, such as Pix in Brazil, and for financial institution customers.

Pismo will retain its current management team. The transaction is subject to regulatory approvals and other customary closing conditions and is expected to close in late 2023.

Visa’s director of product and strategy, Jack Forestell, has stated that through the acquisition of Pismo, Visa can “better” serve its financial institutions and ‘fintech’ clients, with “more differentiated” banking and issuing solutions.

For his part, the co-founder and CEO of Pismo, Ricardo Josua, explained that Visa provides them with “unmatched” support to expand their presence around the world and help shape a new era for banking and payments.

Source: dpa

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