For many fintech entrants eager to capitalize on loan products, mortgages are the Moby-Dick of the lending sea. They are big, they are complicated and they are highly regulated. In North America, Europe and parts

One of the ‘trendiest’ social impact investments historically targets off-grid energy products like solar lanterns, solar home systems and cookstoves. Aside from being a prerequisite for digital inclusion, access to electricity represents the first step

By most measures, Kenya is a shining model of financial inclusion in Sub-Saharan Africa. As the home of the wildly successful M-Pesa mobile money service, Kenya saw 79 percent of all citizens above the age

Mondato selected the bustling urban jungle of Jakarta, Indonesia as the location for the fifth annual digital finance & commerce (DFC) executive Summit this week. In partnership with the Australian Embassy in Jakarta and its

“Usually at a financial conference, the line for the women’s room is the shorter one.” - Overheard at Fearless in Fintech Indeed, a jest made in good-fun to pass the time in the long

Generally speaking, financial literacy has belonged in the wheelhouse of public entities. With even the citizenry of wealthy countries lagging by many indicators, national governments have slapped together agencies, boards and commissions in a bid

Whether you believe in Bitcoin or not, the blockchain technology it’s premised on is generating buzz across virtually all industries (digital finance very much included). That isn’t the case because Bitcoin is particularly

Earlier this year, Mondato explored the insights emerging from the Global Findex data-set on financial inclusion, highlighting the ascendance of West Africa on the mobile money scene, as well as the troubling gender gap dynamics