September 19, 2024 Germany’s Cash Culture: Entrenched, But Evolving In Germany, the winds of digitization are blowing, though they may be more swirling than a concentrated gust.
June 28, 2022 King Cash in the Congo: A Tale of Three Cities Throughout much of the developing world, the availability and use of digital finance services have become the norm
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
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
May 20, 2020 The Death Of Cash: Greatly Exaggerated? The death of cash has been foretold for years. Among other causes, the rise of digital payment tools
August 20, 2019 Remittances: Ending Cash-Out Thirty years after being first introduced, digital remittances have failed to truly take off. 90 percent of remittances
June 04, 2019 The Last Mile: Mobile Money Agents Mobile money agents - frequently described as the “bridges” to financial inclusion - constitute the last-mile distribution network
March 26, 2019 Are The Economics Of Cash Crumbling? Since the dawn of civilization, physical currency has been the backbone of everyday commerce. But in 2019, prophesies
January 22, 2019 Argentina: The Worst Of Times Anyone following the economic situation in Argentina is well-aware of its slow spiral. Since late 2015, the Argentine
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
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&
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
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
February 27, 2018 To P2P, Or Not To P2P? Is That The Question? Once upon a time, person-to-person (P2P) payments were, to all intents and purposes, mobile payments. Before there was
August 08, 2017 Does Demonetisation Work? While the Indian government's dramatic and surprise demonetisation campaign garnered most of the headlines, India is