Tag: Africa

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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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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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May 29, 2018

Mobile Credit: The Airtime, Mobile Money Dichotomy

The delivery of mobile credit (at least when transported on the rails of mobile network operators) has been
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May 15, 2018

Will Mobile Money Drive Digital Media In Africa?

Traditionally, advertising has been the driving fuel for the production of the information we consume. But in emerging
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May 08, 2018

Global Findex 2017: West Africa Steps Into The Spotlight

When the World Bank's 2014 Global Findex numbers were published, the banner headline figures announced a 700 million
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April 02, 2018

Digital-Only Banks Go Global

A little less than a year ago, Mondato weighed the future of the bank branch. While North American
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February 19, 2018

International Remittance Hubs: Interoperability Evolving

Most countries are fumbling to find the proper footing, momentum or buy-in to coordinate a national campaign for
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February 06, 2018

Do Bank-Led Models Stall Progress?

Although the dichotomy of bank-led and mobile network operator-led (henceforth referred to as MNO-led) mobile money regulatory approaches
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January 09, 2018

Crowdfunding: MSMEs' Golden Ticket?

Those invested in the plight of Micro, Small and Middle Enterprises (MSMEs), especially ones settled in emerging markets,
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September 26, 2017

The GSMA Innovation Funds: Kick-Starting Scale

Somewhere along the way, the mobile phone came to represent the hinterlands of capacity-building in emerging economies. While
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September 05, 2017

When Telcos and FSPs Intersect

These days, and with very few exceptions, if you aren’t doing mobile then you aren’t doing
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August 22, 2017

What Do We Want? Instant Payments!

When do we want them...? Instantly! What do we want? Instant payments! Why do we want them? Because
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June 27, 2017

The Winners And Losers in Mobile Money

When the GSMA released the 2016 mobile money 'State of the Industry Report' at Mobile World Congress in
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December 14, 2016

PAYG Solar Energy: Promoting Power & Mobile Money Across Africa

In recent Mondato Insights, we have discussed a series of digital finance & commerce (DFC) use cases such
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October 11, 2016

Move Over Techies, Farmers Are the New (and Old) Frontier

Technological innovation is disrupting agricultural value and supply chains, no matter whether in relation to pre-cultivation, cultivation and
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October 21, 2015

The Lion Tweets Tonight?

The rest of the world is slowly waking up to the fact that the digital revolution is not
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July 28, 2015

The West African Economic & Monetary Union: Ready For The Big Time?

Along with other commentators in the space, *Mondato Insight *has frequently observed the importance of the regulatory framework
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July 22, 2015

Digital Finance and the Future of Farming

Three out of every four poor people in developing countries live in rural areas, and most of them
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July 01, 2015

Can Mobile Money Improve Your Health?

The general rule of thumb is that when something appears too good to be true, it very likely
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April 01, 2015

On the African Horn of a Dilemma

In early February, a group of United States senators, congressmen and congresswomen sent a letter to the Secretary
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June 24, 2014

Mondato Summit Africa: Day 2 Round-up

See here for the full Storify of both days of the Mondato Summit Africa 2014. Day 2’s
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