June 21, 2022 Vietnamese Fintech: Sprinting Before Walking? In a region that stands out for fintech acceleration, Vietnam stands out. With a sizable, young and tech
June 07, 2022 Will Informal Savings Groups Survive Inflation? The crucial importance of savings groups to protect vulnerable and underserved groups in times of economic shock was
May 31, 2022 Not All Fintechs Will Weather The Current Shock — And That’s A Good Thing Fintech may be among the worst-hit sectors amidst the recent market downturn, but that says nothing of the
May 24, 2022 Can e-Health Scale in Africa? Two years after the start of the pandemic, a groundswell of healthcare electrification and digitization investments is preparing
May 20, 2022 Mondato Summit Africa 2022: Key Themes and Takeaways After a two-year hiatus, Mondato welcomed executives, entrepreneurs, experts and public sector leaders in Maputo, Mozambique this week
May 10, 2022 The Disabled Face AI-Driven Exclusion — Despite Huge Market Potential The disability community, despite possessing over $1.2 trillion [https://www.ilo.org/global/about-the-ilo/newsroom/news/WCMS_
May 03, 2022 What M-Pesa and Apple’s Empires Say About Platform Economies At first glance, comparing Apple to M-Pesa might seem like comparing apples to oranges (certainly no pun intended)
April 20, 2022 Blockchain Reaches Adolescence Long associated with cryptocurrencies, blockchain technology has come to earn a degree of skepticism among investors, regulators and
April 13, 2022 Femtech: A Kaleidoscope Of Opportunities And Vision With an estimated potential market size of about $50 billion by 2025 [https://www.frost.com/news/press-releases/
April 06, 2022 Greece: The Digitization of an Economy Left Behind Greece has yet to recover from its economic crisis wrought in late 2009, with profound implications on the
March 30, 2022 Will The Metaverse Transform Fintech As We Know It? Crypto enthusiasts and Mark Zuckerberg have one thing in common: they love the metaverse. Their vision for the
March 23, 2022 Central Bank Digital Currencies: What Are They Good For? Two years after the Bahamas became the first country [https://www.forbes.com/sites/vipinbharathan/2020/10/21/
March 16, 2022 Digitizing SACCOs: Opportunities And Risks Savings and Credit Cooperative Organizations (SACCOs) across Africa are digitizing rapidly. From the use of digital core banking
March 02, 2022 Fintech’s Pivotal Role In Sanction Regimes Never before has a country so large and economically important as Russia faced such potentially dramatic exclusion from
February 23, 2022 Smartphones In Africa: Reaching An Inflection Point? If Africa leapfrogged landline telephony into the mobile era, it has only shuffled towards the smartphone era. Yet
February 16, 2022 Out Of The Shadows: How B2Bs Are Reaching Informal Sectors The informal economy is a dynamic yet inefficient ecosystem consisting of laborers, small businesses and gig workers, comprising
February 02, 2022 Instant Payments: A Key To Financial Inclusion? Instant payments, or real-time payments, are the future. Instant payments have considerably accelerated during the pandemic, driven by
January 26, 2022 Bridging the Digital Divide: A DRC Deep Dive The global pandemic has accelerated digitization — particularly in the way the world transacts. But despite the boost in
January 19, 2022 Live Commerce: Is Culture A Deal-Breaker? From mobile payment technology to super apps, China long ago leapfrogged the world in fintech innovations. Ecommerce is
January 05, 2022 Fintech 2022: A Retrospective And A Preview In 2021, as the world experienced its second year of the COVID pandemic — and the rapid acceleration of
December 22, 2021 Australia’s Digital Economy: On The Precipice Of Transformation? Buoyed by industry-leading initiatives like a rails-unifying New Payments Platform [https://www.rba.gov.au/payments-and-infrastructure/new-payments-platform/], optimists
December 08, 2021 Blockchain-Based Payments in Kenya: A Square Peg in a Round Hole? If you were to conduct a quick Google search on how many crypto owners there are in Kenya,
November 24, 2021 Fintech’s Funding Bonanza: A Bubble Or Warranted? Funding and valuations have skyrocketed across tech sectors, yet arguably none stands out more than fintech. One in
November 10, 2021 Can Digitization Reduce Mass Migration From The Northern Triangle? In an effort to curb the latest influx of migration to the United States from El Salvador, Guatemala