July 12, 2023 Bridging The Access-Usage Gap, Literacy Efforts Aren’t Key — Addressing Need Is Even following COVID’s turbocharge of digital uptake, the slower gains in usage compared to access renders financial
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
October 20, 2021 From Mobile Money Powerhouse to Super App: The Case of M-Pesa After much fanfare, Safaricom launched its M-Pesa super app in Kenya in June 2021, following in the footsteps
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/
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
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 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
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 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
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
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
April 24, 2018 Do 'Cash Machines' Have A Future Without Cash? If we ever, indeed, do arrive at a global cashless future, historians may some day trace its birth