Beyond Home Intelligence
Build evidence before making claims.
Beyond Home is developing a research programme on diaspora capital and cross-border friction. The method will be published before the number, and planned products are labelled as planned until real data exists.
Programme
Four lines of work
Beyond Home Diaspora Capital Pulse
A planned recurring study of diaspora professionals and investors covering allocation behaviour, remittance patterns, FX and repatriation concern, credit access and stated barriers. Fieldwork has not opened: no research responses are being collected until the consent model and methodology are published. A register of interest is open.
Beyond Home Capital Friction Index
A proposed composite index examining the practical difficulty of moving, deploying and recovering capital as a non-resident investor. The working framework is public, but weightings, validation and data sources are still being developed and no scores have been released.
Policy Briefs
Planned short research notes for regulators, finance ministries, financial institutions and development organisations on specific mechanisms such as corridor pricing, credit portability, investment access and identity infrastructure.
Country Intelligence
Planned market-level profiles bringing together regulatory position, capital controls, investment protection, financial infrastructure and diaspora-specific access routes. These will distinguish sourced facts from analysis and open research questions.
Methodology framework
Nine working dimensions
The framework below is a development model for the Capital Friction Index. Weightings, data sources, comparability rules and validation are not final. No market score or ranking should be inferred from this page.
Several of the same themes are explored as sourced narrative research in the corridor research, and technical terms are defined in the glossary.
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Transfer cost
All-in cost of moving funds into and within the market, including fees and measurable FX spread where data permits.
- 02
FX volatility
Observed currency movement and the relevance of exchange-rate risk for cross-border capital.
- 03
Convertibility
Practical ability to convert local currency into foreign currency through lawful, accessible channels.
- 04
Repatriation
Rules, documentation and observed processes affecting the return of principal or profits abroad.
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Credit portability
Recognition of foreign credit history, income and financial identity in local underwriting.
- 06
Regulatory predictability
Stability, transparency and notice of rule changes relevant to non-resident investors.
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Investment protection
Contract enforcement, title security, disclosure and available recourse.
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Digital financial infrastructure
Coverage and interoperability of payment, identity and account-access rails.
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Investor confidence
Survey-derived sentiment, to be used only once a documented sampling and validation approach is in place.
Standards
How the programme is governed
Partners and sponsors cannot select conclusions, suppress findings, approve responses or determine future country rankings. Commissioned work, when undertaken, is labelled separately from independent editorial research.
Methodology
Research aims, recruitment, sampling and its limits, consent and withdrawal, data retention, publication practice, and the principles being developed for the Capital Friction Index.
Read the methodologyEditorial charter
Independence from commercial relationships, the separation of public interviews from confidential research, consent, right of reply, corrections, non-partisan framing and sponsor disclosure.
Read the charterFor institutions
Discuss the research programme.
We welcome discussions with banks, payments companies, development-finance institutions, regulators, universities, airlines, mobility businesses and corporate strategy teams interested in the questions behind the programme. At pre-launch, briefings concern scope and methodology rather than unpublished findings.