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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.

Digital Finance and the Future of Farming

Three out of every four poor people in developing countries live in rural areas, and most of them

Password, PIN, or Print?

How many passwords do you need to remember on a daily basis? Do you find yourself having to

The Secret Sauce for Success in MFS?

A great deal has been written about what factors are important in generating scale in a mobile money

Can Mobile Money Improve Your Health?

The general rule of thumb is that when something appears too good to be true, it very likely

What Will the Bank of the Future Look Like?

Banks! What are they good for? If you listen to some of the evangelists of the “disruptive technology

Will Apple and Samsung Get Zapped?

In the world of mobile payments, much attention of late has focused on the collision in the United

Can You Teach an Old Lender New Tricks?

Based on a foundation of airtime and person-to-person money transfers, an emerging second generation of Mobile Finance and

What We Learned At Mondato Summit Africa 2015

In its second year, Mondato Summit Africa was treated to more beautiful winter sunshine, and we had a

How Best to Keep Afloat

It has long been recognized that one of the main challenges to deploying and scaling a successful mobile

Who Should Carry the Burden of Risk?

In last week’s Mondato Insight, we touched upon the issue of fraud in mobile money, and asked

Should We Be Worried About Fraud?

As discussed in last week’s Mondato Insight, trust is one of the key factors that will ultimately

Who Can Consumers Trust?

When Apple’s CEO Tim Cook announced Apple Pay to the world, the Cupertino tech giant’s payments

When Incentives Don't Align

“How Afghanistan Is on the Leading Edge of a Tech Revolution” thundered Time magazine in the Spring of

World Bank Findex 2014: Mobile Money Isn't the Only Show in Town

Last week the World Bank released the second wave of its ‘Global Findex‘: the results of a global

Do Banks Have a Brick-and-Mortar Future?

A new report issued by the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System has shed significant new

Is Samsung Going to Steal Apple's Pay Thunder?

The “year of mobile payments” has been a long time coming, but it finally appears that 2015 is

On the African Horn of a Dilemma

In early February, a group of United States senators, congressmen and congresswomen sent a letter to the Secretary

Who Really Needs Financial Education?

Mobile phones and mobile wallets have a bi-directional relationship with financial education. On the one hand, a degree

The Potential Pitfalls of Regulatory Innovation

For the past five years or so, Ghana has ploughed a somewhat lonely furrow in the world of

Unleashing India's Potential (Part 2)

In the first part of this two-part blog post on mobile finance and commerce (MFC) in India, Mondato

MWC 2015: Same Same But Different?

It is that time of the year again, when 90,000 hardy souls converge on the Spanish city

February 25, 2015

Unleashing India's Potential (Part 1)

In 2011, the last year for which the World Bank records data, just 35% of Indians over the

February 18, 2015

Mobile Mary?

In most places around the world, the direction of travel in transactions and payments is towards digitization. The

February 04, 2015

Mobile Money and the Ebola Crisis

Although the Ebola virus that spread late last year through parts of West Africa claimed the lives of

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