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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.

La Construcción de un Ecosistema Digital en Colombia

Durante gran parte de su historia reciente, Colombia a menudo ha estado en los titulares, pero raramente por
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Colombia: Building a Digital Ecosystem Through Public Private Partnership

Haga clic aquí para leer en español. For much of its recent history, Colombia often has made the
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The Rise of the Cheap Smartphone

Moore’s Law observes that over the history of computing, processing speeds have doubled every two years. Whether
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Is MFS in Africa Reaching Maturity?

In a Mondato Insight last summer, we discussed the problems associated with encouraging recycling of funds within a
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What Lies in Store in 2015?

In Mondato Insight’s recent Year in Review edition, we took a look back at our predictions from
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2014: The year in Review

As the year draws to a close, and we begin to think forward to our New Year’s
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Holidays 2014: Good News for Apps, Bad News for Apple?

It’s the time of the year when cash registers ring out holiday cheer for merchants and retailers,
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Mobile, Data, and the Virtuous Circle

Policy-makers and innovators the world over have been turning their attention to the potential of data and “big
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Is Interoperability Inevitable in Mobile Money?

One of the lessons taken from the massive shake-up that Apple brought to the payments world in developed
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The Opportunity for Africa to Move Beyond P2P in MFS

Mobile financial services (MFS) consists of a wide range of offerings, from current and savings accounts and other
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Mondato Summit Asia: The Highlights

Find out what were the quotable quotes and the insights you missed at Mondato Summit Asia 2014. (Scroll
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There was something in the air at CARTES 2014

For the best part of three decades, CARTES has been a staple of the payments industry calendar, and
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Telcos and the Connected Consumer

When two of Europe’s largest telcos, Orange and T-Mobile, combined their services in the UK, they decided
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Under The Hood of Apple Pay

This Monday past saw the deployment in the US of Apple’s much-hyped mobile payment product, Apple Pay,
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eBay Minus PayPal Equals PayPal Squared?

The world of payments and e-commerce is getting exciting. Back in May, Mondato Insight had a look at
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What FinTech Buyers Want

Whether it is a major financial institution deciding on a multi-million dollar IT upgrade, a Mobile Network Operator
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The Risks and Rewards of Airtime as Currency

Last week’s Mondato Insight looked at carrier billing and its re-emergence as a mobile payments solution. In
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The Re-Emergence of Carrier Billing

Carrier billing is an aspect of the mobile payments ecosystem most commonly associated with emerging markets. In these
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Apple's Challenge

The launch of the iPhone 6 has set the payments world abuzz. For a while now, many in
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Cutting Through the Red Tape in Java

There are few markets around the world that hold as much potential for MFS as Indonesia. Home to
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Using HCD to Make Mobile Money Relevant

Earlier in 2014, two Mondato Insights examined the role of Human Centered Design (HCD) in enhancing the user
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Mobile Money In Myanmar

Mobile money is coming to Myanmar – but can it overcome challenges?   At first glance, Myanmar appears to offer
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Taking the Mobile Out of Mobile Money

In developed economies the mobile money ecosystem looks rather different from that of emerging markets, where MNOs are
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WhatsApp Versus Viber: The Payments Battle of the Future?

When earlier this year Facebook purchased the messaging service app WhatsApp for USD $19 billion, some questioned the
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