January 25, 2023 Africa’s Social Commerce Runners: Raising The Floor, But Lowering The Ceiling? Social commerce is making inroads across Africa, propelled by stronger cross-border trade corridors that are helping to plug
January 18, 2023 ChatGPT: The Challenges And Opportunities Coming To Financial Services It’s been decades since algorithmic trading transformed Wall Street with its high-frequency trading and years since the
January 11, 2023 Is Financial Literacy the Missing Piece to African Insurtech? In her nearly ten years running a small grocery store in Kenya, Faith Kemunto’s biggest fear has
December 28, 2022 Fintech 2023: Looking Back To Look Forward In the first two years of the COVID pandemic, “acceleration” was the overused buzzword for what lockdowns and
December 07, 2022 Regulation: The Secret Ingredient To Uganda’s Fintech Sauce? The East African country of Uganda has historically played second or third fiddle to fintech giants Kenya to
November 30, 2022 The Hurdles of Financing Africa’s Cross-Border Logistics Industry The cross-border logistics industry in Africa, currently estimated to be about $150 billion [https://internationalfinance.com/technology-uptake-drives-african-logistics-innovation/] , has
November 23, 2022 Mobile Money In Zimbabwe: Shaken, But Still Standing The popularity of mobile money in Zimbabwe is stifled by the government’s policies, high transaction fees and
November 01, 2022 The New Rules And Norms Shaping Alternative Data 2.0 The first wave of alternative data use gave rise to powerhouse companies across key markets in the African
October 26, 2022 Gambling And Fintech: Two Sides Of The Same Coin? Similar to cannabis [https://blog.mondato.com/the-cannabis-industry-is-going-digital/], the growing legal acceptance of gambling in the United States
September 28, 2022 Brazil’s Pix: Should Instant Payment Rails Be A Public Good? When Mondato Insight last discussed [https://blog.mondato.com/whatsapp-payments-case-study-brazil/] instant payments in Brazil in 2020, Brazil’s
August 23, 2022 Travel And Fintech: Where Challenge Meets Flush Opportunity As travel deals with a myriad of cancellations [https://www.travelandleisure.com/travel-news/2022-flight-cancellations-pandemic-data] this year and, until
July 26, 2022 The Conundrum Of Chargeback Fraud Chargebacks are a tool simultaneously essential to digital commerce, yet one deeply vulnerable to abuse. Chargebacks occur when
July 05, 2022 Integrated Solutions: The Sole Path To Sustainability And Scalability? Once upon a time, businesses focused on core competencies: do what you do best, and capture the given
June 21, 2022 Vietnamese Fintech: Sprinting Before Walking? In a region that stands out for fintech acceleration, Vietnam stands out. With a sizable, young and tech
May 31, 2022 Not All Fintechs Will Weather The Current Shock — And That’s A Good Thing Fintech may be among the worst-hit sectors amidst the recent market downturn, but that says nothing of the
April 13, 2022 Femtech: A Kaleidoscope Of Opportunities And Vision With an estimated potential market size of about $50 billion by 2025 [https://www.frost.com/news/press-releases/
April 06, 2022 Greece: The Digitization of an Economy Left Behind Greece has yet to recover from its economic crisis wrought in late 2009, with profound implications on the
March 30, 2022 Will The Metaverse Transform Fintech As We Know It? Crypto enthusiasts and Mark Zuckerberg have one thing in common: they love the metaverse. Their vision for the
March 23, 2022 Central Bank Digital Currencies: What Are They Good For? Two years after the Bahamas became the first country [https://www.forbes.com/sites/vipinbharathan/2020/10/21/
February 23, 2022 Smartphones In Africa: Reaching An Inflection Point? If Africa leapfrogged landline telephony into the mobile era, it has only shuffled towards the smartphone era. Yet
February 16, 2022 Out Of The Shadows: How B2Bs Are Reaching Informal Sectors The informal economy is a dynamic yet inefficient ecosystem consisting of laborers, small businesses and gig workers, comprising
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
December 22, 2021 Australia’s Digital Economy: On The Precipice Of Transformation? Buoyed by industry-leading initiatives like a rails-unifying New Payments Platform [https://www.rba.gov.au/payments-and-infrastructure/new-payments-platform/], optimists
December 08, 2021 Blockchain-Based Payments in Kenya: A Square Peg in a Round Hole? If you were to conduct a quick Google search on how many crypto owners there are in Kenya,