April 15, 2020 Digital Distancing: The Key To Payments Reimagined Digital payments are receiving much special attention at the moment. Firstly, officials in China and elsewhere hypothesized early
April 07, 2020 Startups Won't Survive Unless They Play Both Sides Three months in, and 2020 has already introduced significant risk into the financial services sector, from deposit runs
April 01, 2020 Staying Current In A Crisis It is too early to tell what will result from the onset of COVID-19. However, news outlets around
March 25, 2020 Will COVID-19 Lead To Bigger, Better Borrowing? Mere weeks following its arrival on the global stage, the COVID-19 epidemic has already wreaked havoc on health
March 17, 2020 Digital Finance Is As Important As Ever During COVID-19 History tells us that The Black Death was a catalyst in shifting Europe’s economy away from the
March 10, 2020 Why Western Union Is Still King Of Remittances P2P cross-border transfers - known as remittances - have long occupied a critically important role in the modern
March 03, 2020 Better Payments, Better Apps: The Sharing Economy Wars The so-called “sharing economy,” led by ride-sharing pioneers like Uber and home-sharing pioneers like Airbnb, has expanded to
February 25, 2020 Shifting Sands: The New Digital Labor Landscape The so-called “fourth industrial revolution” is here. It comprises new technological advancements and increasingly global supply chains, which
February 18, 2020 Do Women Hold The Key To Financial Inclusion In Mozambique? An initial glance at the state of financial inclusion in Mozambique suggests a healthy fintech ecosystem. For a
February 11, 2020 Eco Currency: Cash In Common For West Africa? Against a post-Brexit backdrop, what can we learn from the internecine integration (and disintegration) challenges of other regions?
February 04, 2020 Open Banking: API Use Cases To The Rescue The traditional open banking use case is that of an app which tracks financial activity and allows users
January 28, 2020 Will Singapore's Digital Bank Licenses Level The Playing Field? Last June, the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) announced that it will issue five digital bank licenses. A
January 21, 2020 Gift Cards: An Unlikely Revolution In Payments Giving is big business. Birthdays, holidays, and other occasions to say “thank you” drive a global gift card
January 14, 2020 Mini-Grids: Powerful Partners For Financial Inclusion With new year fanfare subsiding, the long march towards achieving the UN’s 2030 Sustainable Development Goals has
January 07, 2020 Maps, Money, & Mobile: Defining Geospatial Commerce In Partnership with: In today’s internet-driven, data-rich world, innumerable brick-and-mortar operations have failed as stand-alone entities because
December 10, 2019 Digital Literacy: To Read And Write In Mobile Mobile money technology allows people to receive, send, store, and spend money directly from their cell phones. There
December 04, 2019 Consolidation: The Only Path for Ecommerce? Facebook's notorious Libra melodrama over the last few months is just one example suggesting that big
November 27, 2019 Data Sovereignty: Threading The Regulatory Needle Every move we make in cyberspace leaves a digital footprint. The emerging area of Data Sovereignty asks: in
November 20, 2019 Will Banks Lead the Fintech Charge? It’s sometimes assumed that competition in the financial services space is good for end users. If consumers
November 12, 2019 The Inclusion Illusion: Financial Health in Kenya For some, fintech’s association with financial inclusion and better financial health for users is a foregone conclusion.
November 06, 2019 Removing The Risk From Bank-Fintech Partnerships It's a worldwide phenomenon: instead of competing in a zero-sum game with emerging fintech firms, banks
October 29, 2019 Brazil: Digital Finance at the Speed of Light Less than a decade after the first startups began to challenge the traditional banking ecosystem in Brazil, growth
October 23, 2019 Is Mobile Money Helping or Harming Zimbabwe? Zimbabwe’s economy is going through another nose-dive. The Mnangagwa administration, faced with re-instilling trust in the economy
October 16, 2019 S-Commerce: Shopping End-to-end With Family & Friends Social media’s journey towards monetization, laborious though it has been, appears to be striking pay dirt at