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 tech is
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 are forming
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
October 08, 2019 Digital Banking in Asia: How to Regulate a Revolution Since 2014, digital banking penetration has increased by between 1.5- and 3-fold across emerging markets in Asia.
October 02, 2019 The Biggest Ideas at Finovate Fall 2019 If the next billion-dollar fintech was being pitched this week, it was probably happening in New York. Over
September 24, 2019 MVNOs: Where Telcos And Digital Finance Converge? Mobile virtual network operators (MVNOs) have been around for almost three decades. Initially conceived as a way for
September 17, 2019 Kids: Does Digital Abstract Money For the Worse? A grand behavioral economics experiment is underway on kids. Since commercial exchange began, children have learned the nature