February 17, 2021 Auto Fintech: Driving the Smart Vehicle into Uncharted Territory The rapid onset of connected autonomous, shared and electric vehicles is ushering a new digital age in the
February 10, 2021 Have the Stars Finally Aligned for Middle Eastern Fintech? The story of digital technology adoption over the last year in simplest terms is essentially the same everywhere:
February 03, 2021 Pandemic-Proof? Revisiting Remittance Rails Succeeding in the money transfer industry is no mean feat, and requires mastering the ins and outs of
January 27, 2021 Minding the DFS Gender Gap: Battling Social Norms to Level the Playing Field Last week, Mondato hosted a webinar focused on the digital financial services (DFS) gender gap, as part of
January 20, 2021 EdTech Takes Over: COVID-19 Spurs a Digital Transformation of Education As the pandemic forced school shutdowns around the world, digital solutions entered centerstage to support a sudden shift
January 13, 2021 Innovations in Insurtech: Observing Fintech’s Path While Forging Its Own Insurtech is sometimes the forgotten child of the fintech revolution. Facing stiff regulations borne of an obsolete era,
January 06, 2021 All Aboard: Why Every Bank Needs Omnichannel Consumer banking is sometimes seen as a zero-sum game. As banking goes ever-more digital, it’s perhaps natural
December 16, 2020 Travel Rewards: A Currency Out Of Context More than almost any industry, travel and hospitality took a beating this year as governments issued lockdowns and
December 09, 2020 PropTech: A Forever Home For Fintech As the quintessential legacy system stretching back in some parts hundreds or even thousands of years, the property
December 02, 2020 Data Is The New Dogma: Monetize And Thrive “Data is the new X.” Oil, oxygen, even nuclear power - data’s relevance to the modern economy
November 25, 2020 From Ride-Hail To SuperApp, By Way Of Fintech When ride-hailing companies first hit the consumer landscape more than ten years ago, they were hailed as revolutionary
November 17, 2020 Pandemic-Fueled Digitization: Who Remains Excluded? Digitization catalyzed by the coronavirus pandemic has dominated the headlines and minds of business leaders for the past
November 11, 2020 Financing The Stone: How The Cannabis Industry Is Going Digital November 4th, 2020 was a decisive victory for the legal cannabis movement. 15 U.S. states have now
November 03, 2020 Price To Win: How Pricing Can Set A Fintech Apart What’s in a price? This deceptively simple question quickly unfolds into a question of “value” — a much
October 28, 2020 Let Us Not Forget: The Internet Is A Human Right The United Nations has officially considered the internet to be a human right since 2016. According to The
October 20, 2020 Central Africa's Path Forward: Regional Digital Cooperation Nestled in the center of the world’s fastest-growing continent, the region of Central Africa is at a
October 13, 2020 We Need All Three: How ID, Finance, And Mobile Can Help The Poor In development circles, there’s the popular notion that in order to improve economic and social inequities among
October 07, 2020 Telehealth Is The Next Digital Opportunity Telehealth, telemedicine, digital health, high-tech healthcare, health tech, medtech - there is a plethora of names for the
September 30, 2020 Is Digitization Disrupting Urban Development? Across the world’s developed metropolises, COVID is causing unexpected spatial redistributions of economic activities - and consequently,
September 23, 2020 The Bottomless Potential Of Central Bank Digital Currencies As our world becomes more digitized amid the global Covid-19 pandemic, central bank digital currency, a concept that
September 16, 2020 Buy Now, Pay Later: Free Credit, Or Debt By Design? Consumers have been weathering uncertainty since long before COVID-19. Today, many are being judicious about how they spend,
September 09, 2020 What The 2020 U.S. Election Could Mean For Digital Finance In just 55 days, the people of the United States will go to the polls. Technology will no
September 02, 2020 Good Deals, Better Data: Cash-Back's Big Comeback This July, Japanese multinational Rakuten quietly closed its United States based e-commerce platform. Formerly known as Buy.com,
August 26, 2020 Investing In Latin America: The New Global Fixation Last year saw a surge in startup (including fintech) funding across Latin America – from Argentina to Mexico and