Co-Founder & CEO, Emerging Markets Coalition and Michael Flores, CEO Bretton Woods, Inc. and Senior Advisor, Emerging Markets Coalition
The Emerging Markets Coalition (EMC) is a member-driven advocacy and educational organization for financial services in highly cash-based and underserved markets. Our first targets are the cannabis-related industries (hemp, CBD, cannabis). EMC advocates and drives for the normalization of financial services — enabling these businesses to operate as do other legal businesses in a growing, regulated, emerging market.
Why was EMC founded and why did we choose to drive innovation in one of the toughest markets to bank? Because the EMC co-founders have