April 21, 2021 Can Climate Fintech Lift Emerging Economies? Climate fintech is being leveraged to help countries reach global net carbon neutrality by 2060, but its impact
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
April 07, 2021 Will Vaccine Passports Exclude or Enable? A vaccination clinic [https://www.tel-aviv.gov.il/en/Pages/ArticlePage.aspx?WebID=9336473c-1537-4ab6-8a69-d299b5db8bcc&ListID=b4eda22c-a69a-4bef-9479-05d5a832ad16&
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
March 24, 2021 Can Personality Predict Loan Performance? Know Your Customer — often abbreviated as KYC — is such an important part of success in digital finance that
March 17, 2021 PayPal’s Indian Exit and Chinese Entry: Why? PayPal recently became the first foreign fintech [https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-paypal-stake/paypal-becomes-first-foreign-firm-in-china-with-full-ownership-of-payments-business-idUSKBN29J0IC] to acquire a coveted
March 10, 2021 Islamic Fintech: An Ethical Financial Inclusion Proposition Islamic fintech signifies far more than technological updates to traditional Islamic finance. The industry is grounded by traditional
March 03, 2021 Is Covid the “Big Bang” of Digital Payments? As we enter the second year of the Covid pandemic, headlines are still dominated by the global transition
February 24, 2021 There and Back Again: A Nigerien Remittance Tale While showing signs of maturity, consolidation in the remittance industry has only just begun, and there remain enormous
February 10, 2021 Have the Stars Finally Aligned for Middle Eastern Fintech? The story of digital technology adoption over the last year in simplest terms is essentially the same everywhere:
February 03, 2021 Pandemic-Proof? Revisiting Remittance Rails Succeeding in the money transfer industry is no mean feat, and requires mastering the ins and outs 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 13, 2021 Innovations in Insurtech: Observing Fintech’s Path While Forging Its Own Insurtech is sometimes the forgotten child of the fintech revolution. Facing stiff regulations borne of an obsolete era,
January 06, 2021 All Aboard: Why Every Bank Needs Omnichannel Consumer banking is sometimes seen as a zero-sum game. As banking goes ever-more digital, it’s perhaps natural
March 17, 2020 Digital Finance Is As Important As Ever During COVID-19 History tells us that The Black Death was a catalyst in shifting Europe’s economy away from the
May 21, 2019 Is Fintech's Scope Confused? Fintech is an elusive term. As its name suggests, fintech inhabits the intersection of finance and tech, so
April 23, 2019 The Academic Approach To DFC Mastery Perhaps unbeknownst to those on the outside looking in, the digital finance and commerce (DFC) ecosystem is a
April 16, 2019 Mondato Summit Africa 2019: Scaling DFC Innovations Last week in Johannesburg’s picturesque Summer Place in Sandton, a group of about one hundred executives, entrepreneurs,
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
February 26, 2019 Digital Loans: A Wild Wild West? When a disruptive new technology enters the market, it’s predictable what comes next: chaos. Without prior regulations
January 15, 2019 Mortgages: Different Stages Of Digitization For many fintech entrants eager to capitalize on loan products, mortgages are the Moby-Dick of the lending sea.
December 03, 2018 Fearless Fintech: Chipping Away At The Gender Gap “Usually at a financial conference, the line for the women’s room is the shorter one.” - Overheard
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
October 09, 2018 Solving The Skills Gap In Digital Financial Services Digital financial services are proliferating around the globe. The specialized skills needed to thrive in the industry, however,