January 01, 2019

Cashless Transportation: Kenya And Rwanda As Case Studies

By most measures, Kenya is a shining model of financial inclusion in Sub-Saharan Africa. As the home of
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December 13, 2018

Mondato Summit Asia 2018: The Next Wave Of Digital Services In Emerging Asia

Mondato selected the bustling urban jungle of Jakarta, Indonesia as the location for the fifth annual digital finance
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December 03, 2018

Fearless Fintech: Chipping Away At The Gender Gap

“Usually at a financial conference, the line for the women’s room is the shorter one.” - Overheard
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November 27, 2018

Baking Financial Literacy Into Product Strategy

Generally speaking, financial literacy has belonged in the wheelhouse of public entities. With even the citizenry of wealthy
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November 20, 2018

Ethereum, The Three Ps And Blockchain’s Future

Whether you believe in Bitcoin or not, the blockchain technology it’s premised on is generating buzz across
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November 13, 2018

Beyond The Binaries: Mobile Money Access Revisited

Earlier this year, Mondato explored the insights emerging from the Global Findex data-set on financial inclusion, highlighting the
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November 06, 2018

Payments Banks To UltraFICO: Targeting No Man's Land

Despite disruptive business models building momentum towards increased digitization in financial services, it is likely just a matter
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October 30, 2018

Africa's Financial Flows: Homeward Bound?

It's been nearly five years since SWIFT, the world’s leading provider of secure financial messaging services, popped
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October 25, 2018

Money20/20: You Say You Want A Revolution?

As the figurative curtains began to close on Money20/20 in Las Vegas this past Wednesday, and exhibitors
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October 16, 2018

Will Modern MFIs Energize Pay As You Go?

The off-grid energy industry is one of the most successful sectors serving the base of the economic pyramid
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October 09, 2018

Solving The Skills Gap In Digital Financial Services

Digital financial services are proliferating around the globe. The specialized skills needed to thrive in the industry, however,
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October 02, 2018

Hyperinflation: In Digital We Trust?

As of December 3rd, 2016, Venezuela became the 57th historical episode of hyperinflation, which has precipitated the country's
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September 25, 2018

Women “Rise Up” To Address Gender Imbalance In Fintech

Mondato will be traveling to Las Vegas next month, from October 21st through the 24th, for Money20/20
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September 18, 2018

Smartphones: The Future Of African Urban Planning?

Humanity faces the mammoth task of adding over 2 billion people to the urban population before 2050, the
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September 11, 2018

Data Localization: Consumer Protection Or Power Grab?

Over the past twelve months, through a combination of regulatory intervention (think GDPR) and private company snafus (think
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September 04, 2018

How Liquid Are Cryptocurrencies, And For Whom?

The Economist this week unabashedly published the headline, "Bitcoin and Other Cryptocurrencies are Useless." The article's
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August 28, 2018

Digital Credit Is Easy, But Is It Too Easy?

Access to credit is a key element of financial inclusion, and over the past five years has become
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August 21, 2018

Impact Investing: From Microfinance To Fintech

Impact investing, or an investment strategy that weighs both financial and social returns at least somewhat equally, has
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August 14, 2018

Are Some Markets Immune To The X-Pays' Advance?

Apple's recent earnings call grabbed a lot of headlines, and the resulting momentum has nudged the company towards
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August 07, 2018

Trade: The Sweet Spot For Commercial Blockchain?

Sometimes it feels the only thing more overhyped than blockchain is Bitcoin, the notorious cryptocurrency built on top
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July 31, 2018

Keeping Customers At The Center of Digital Finance

Just a few years ago, Human Centered Design (HCD) was widely considered a key element in the development
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July 24, 2018

Are The Mechanics Behind Medicine Markets Mangled?

Between the lofty, and somewhat ambiguous, Sustainable Development Goal of 'Good Health and Well-Being' and its more measurable,
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July 17, 2018

Digital Donations: Is Cash Still Tops For Tips?

One of the fundamental purposes of money, whether it is physical cash or digital payments, is to settle
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July 10, 2018

Satellites: Remote Sensing Is For Remote Customers

From the moment the French balloonist Nadar took aerial photographs of Paris in the mid 19th century, serving
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