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
October 04, 2022 The End Of Mobile Money Agent Networks As We Know Them Walk around Nairobi, and you’ll notice the streets are dotted with green. M-Pesa outlets and agents populate
August 30, 2022 Where Financial Inclusion and Climate Resilience Intersect Despite contributing the least [https://allianceforscience.cornell.edu/blog/2020/09/oxfam-the-worlds-poor-suffer-disproportionately-from-carbon-emissions-generated-by-the-rich/] to greenhouse gas emissions, smallholder farmers
August 09, 2022 Cloud And FinTech: Security Gaps Emerge The adoption and use of cloud services is gaining traction among financial institutions as they gain confidence in
July 12, 2022 Is Alternative Financing Hurting Ride-Hailing Drivers? The ride-hailing industry in Sub-Saharan Africa has formed strategic partnerships with alternative financing providers vying to serve the
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 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
June 07, 2022 Will Informal Savings Groups Survive Inflation? The crucial importance of savings groups to protect vulnerable and underserved groups in times of economic shock was
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
May 24, 2022 Can e-Health Scale in Africa? Two years after the start of the pandemic, a groundswell of healthcare electrification and digitization investments is preparing
May 10, 2022 The Disabled Face AI-Driven Exclusion — Despite Huge Market Potential The disability community, despite possessing over $1.2 trillion [https://www.ilo.org/global/about-the-ilo/newsroom/news/WCMS_
April 20, 2022 Blockchain Reaches Adolescence Long associated with cryptocurrencies, blockchain technology has come to earn a degree of skepticism among investors, regulators and
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/
March 16, 2022 Digitizing SACCOs: Opportunities And Risks Savings and Credit Cooperative Organizations (SACCOs) across Africa are digitizing rapidly. From the use of digital core banking
March 02, 2022 Fintech’s Pivotal Role In Sanction Regimes Never before has a country so large and economically important as Russia faced such potentially dramatic exclusion from
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 26, 2022 Bridging the Digital Divide: A DRC Deep Dive The global pandemic has accelerated digitization — particularly in the way the world transacts. But despite the boost in
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