August 18, 2021 From Seed To Table: How Fintech Will Optimize Food Systems When it comes to food security and production, financial inclusion initiatives have long recognized the benefits of access
August 04, 2021 Does Crypto Hype In Latin America Exceed, Meet — Or Make — Reality? How one views the advent of cryptocurrencies in Latin America can be a Rorschach test for how one
July 21, 2021 Africa’s VC Boom: An Enabling Present or a Bet On The Future? With African tech startups expected to receive a record-breaking amount [https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2021/05/study-shows-virtual-capital-for-african-startups-is-steeply-increasing/
July 14, 2021 Digital Lending’s Self-Regulation: A Redemption Story? For years now, digital lending in emerging markets has faced public rebuke for at times utilizing deceptive marketing
July 07, 2021 Blockchain’s Emerging Opportunities in Emerging Markets If futurists’ predictions about the paradigm-shifting impact of digital ledger technologies — more commonly known as blockchain — are realized,
June 30, 2021 The Dangers of the One-Click Buy Paradigm The fintech revolution has centered around the idea of making payments frictionless, painless and flush with options. The
June 23, 2021 The Final Frontier of Content Streaming: Emerging Markets Competition for content streaming and distribution services in the developed world has been intensifying since 2019 [https://www.
June 16, 2021 Chinese Fintech’s “New Normal”: What Does It Mean? The past two decades have seen China ascend as a fintech powerhouse, fueling much of the country’s
June 09, 2021 Rwanda: Land of 1,000 Digital Contradictions Small, mountainous and land-locked, Rwanda’s rugged topology subtly influences all facets of life for its almost 13
June 02, 2021 Cryptocurrency: At A Regulatory Crossroads After months of skyrocketing values, the past month saw a precipitous drop in cryptocurrency prices, with the value
May 26, 2021 Has Ethiopia's Digital Finance Moment Finally Come? May has marked some exciting milestones for Ethiopia and its digital ecosystem, which has piqued the interest of
May 19, 2021 Fintech’s Cybersecurity Soft Spot: Vendors Recent cyberattacks on IT resources firm Solar Winds [https://www.npr.org/2021/04/16/985439655/a-worst-nightmare-cyberattack-the-untold-story-of-the-solarwinds-hack] and
May 12, 2021 COVID’s G2P Revolution: Togo as a Case Study Effective targeting is critical for government programs as well as market penetration strategies to succeed — a challenge exacerbated
May 05, 2021 Is Gig Work Financially Sustainable? The lack of stable income from single, easily verifiable sources makes it difficult for gig workers to access
April 28, 2021 Emerging Market BNPL: An Opportunity for Growth and Inclusion As retailers continue to explore ways to incentivize customers to purchase more online, and as fintech providers look
April 21, 2021 Can Climate Fintech Lift Emerging Economies? Climate fintech is being leveraged to help countries reach global net carbon neutrality by 2060, but its impact
April 14, 2021 Beyond the Last Mile: Reconsidering “Rurality” For far too long, the imaginary divide between rural and urban has proven more of a hindrance than
April 07, 2021 Will Vaccine Passports Exclude or Enable? A vaccination clinic [https://www.tel-aviv.gov.il/en/Pages/ArticlePage.aspx?WebID=9336473c-1537-4ab6-8a69-d299b5db8bcc&ListID=b4eda22c-a69a-4bef-9479-05d5a832ad16&
March 31, 2021 Data, Diversify, Distribute: Emerging Optimization Models 2020 brought with it a 12.7 percent increase [https://www.gsma.com/sotir/] in the number of
March 24, 2021 Can Personality Predict Loan Performance? Know Your Customer — often abbreviated as KYC — is such an important part of success in digital finance that
March 17, 2021 PayPal’s Indian Exit and Chinese Entry: Why? PayPal recently became the first foreign fintech [https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-paypal-stake/paypal-becomes-first-foreign-firm-in-china-with-full-ownership-of-payments-business-idUSKBN29J0IC] to acquire a coveted
March 10, 2021 Islamic Fintech: An Ethical Financial Inclusion Proposition Islamic fintech signifies far more than technological updates to traditional Islamic finance. The industry is grounded by traditional
March 03, 2021 Is Covid the “Big Bang” of Digital Payments? As we enter the second year of the Covid pandemic, headlines are still dominated by the global transition
February 24, 2021 There and Back Again: A Nigerien Remittance Tale While showing signs of maturity, consolidation in the remittance industry has only just begun, and there remain enormous