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Mondato is a boutique management consulting firm specializing in strategic, commercial and operational support for the Digital Finance & Commerce (DFC) industry.

October 25, 2018

Money20/20: You Say You Want A Revolution?

As the figurative curtains began to close on Money20/20 in Las Vegas this past Wednesday, and exhibitors

October 16, 2018

Will Modern MFIs Energize Pay As You Go?

The off-grid energy industry is one of the most successful sectors serving the base of the economic pyramid

October 09, 2018

Solving The Skills Gap In Digital Financial Services

Digital financial services are proliferating around the globe. The specialized skills needed to thrive in the industry, however,

October 02, 2018

Hyperinflation: In Digital We Trust?

As of December 3rd, 2016, Venezuela became the 57th historical episode of hyperinflation, which has precipitated the country&

September 25, 2018

Women “Rise Up” To Address Gender Imbalance In Fintech

Mondato will be traveling to Las Vegas next month, from October 21st through the 24th, for Money20/20

September 18, 2018

Smartphones: The Future Of African Urban Planning?

Humanity faces the mammoth task of adding over 2 billion people to the urban population before 2050, the

September 04, 2018

How Liquid Are Cryptocurrencies, And For Whom?

The Economist this week unabashedly published the headline, "Bitcoin and Other Cryptocurrencies are Useless." The article&

August 28, 2018

Digital Credit Is Easy, But Is It Too Easy?

Access to credit is a key element of financial inclusion, and over the past five years has become

August 21, 2018

Impact Investing: From Microfinance To Fintech

Impact investing, or an investment strategy that weighs both financial and social returns at least somewhat equally, has

August 14, 2018

Are Some Markets Immune To The X-Pays' Advance?

Apple's recent earnings call grabbed a lot of headlines, and the resulting momentum has nudged the

August 07, 2018

Trade: The Sweet Spot For Commercial Blockchain?

Sometimes it feels the only thing more overhyped than blockchain is Bitcoin, the notorious cryptocurrency built on top

Keeping Customers At The Center of Digital Finance

Just a few years ago, Human Centered Design (HCD) was widely considered a key element in the development

Are The Mechanics Behind Medicine Markets Mangled?

Between the lofty, and somewhat ambiguous, Sustainable Development Goal of 'Good Health and Well-Being' and its

Digital Donations: Is Cash Still Tops For Tips?

One of the fundamental purposes of money, whether it is physical cash or digital payments, is to settle

Satellites: Remote Sensing Is For Remote Customers

From the moment the French balloonist Nadar took aerial photographs of Paris in the mid 19th century, serving

Central Bank Digital Currencies

Bitcoin hasn't even celebrated its 10th birthday, and yet in that short space of time cryptocurrencies

MENA: A Digital Finance Desert Or Oasis?

There tends to be a great deal of reductionism when conversation turns to the Middle East and North

China's O2O Unicorns

25 years ago, it was all about getting online. During the dotcom boom, e-commerce was where the future

Digital Adoption: The Black Swan Theory

Until the 17th century, the term “black swan” was used to describe something that didn’t exist -

Mobile Credit: The Airtime, Mobile Money Dichotomy

The delivery of mobile credit (at least when transported on the rails of mobile network operators) has been

Where Next For PayPal After iZettle?

PayPal was, in many senses, the very first "fintech unicorn", upon whose back Elon Musk and

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