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
February 02, 2022 Instant Payments: A Key To Financial Inclusion? Instant payments, or real-time payments, are the future. Instant payments have considerably accelerated during the pandemic, driven by
June 16, 2021 Chinese Fintech’s “New Normal”: What Does It Mean? The past two decades have seen China ascend as a fintech powerhouse, fueling much of the country’s
April 28, 2021 Emerging Market BNPL: An Opportunity for Growth and Inclusion As retailers continue to explore ways to incentivize customers to purchase more online, and as fintech providers look
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
January 07, 2020 Maps, Money, & Mobile: Defining Geospatial Commerce In Partnership with: In today’s internet-driven, data-rich world, innumerable brick-and-mortar operations have failed as stand-alone entities because
December 04, 2019 Consolidation: The Only Path for Ecommerce? Facebook's notorious Libra melodrama over the last few months is just one example suggesting that big
October 16, 2019 S-Commerce: Shopping End-to-end With Family & Friends Social media’s journey towards monetization, laborious though it has been, appears to be striking pay dirt at
March 12, 2019 Amazon And Flipkart: Kiss Indian E-Commerce Goodbye? The offline world has rarely ushered in the online world with grace. In all fairness, few welcome change
June 19, 2018 China's O2O Unicorns 25 years ago, it was all about getting online. During the dotcom boom, e-commerce was where the future
November 29, 2017 Mondato Summit Asia 2017: Emerging Asia’s DFC Moment Fast growing Yangon was host of the fourth annual Mondato Summit Asia on November 28-29, 2017, focusing on
November 07, 2017 The Battle for Southeast Asia While the Asia-Pacific region is the world's largest e-commerce market, China still monopolizes digital retail and
August 15, 2017 M&A Mayhem: Telling Up From Down Even though Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) are a fact of life in any competitive or mature
July 18, 2017 The Acronym Overload 'Technology-speak' has long existed outside the vernacular of the average Joe. As technology continues to wiggle
July 12, 2016 Mystery Box Commerce San Francisco, 1998: * So you are telling me that in the future people are going to be able
June 06, 2016 Is Shipping the Secret Ingredient to E-Commerce Success? Free Shipping or Bust? The introduction of Amazon Prime in 2005 forever altered the consumer psychology and consumers&
May 09, 2016 Is DFC Bringing Luxury to the Masses? Percentages are popular these days, though some more than others. In previous eras, to be in the "
January 19, 2016 Making mCommerce Logistically Possible ‘Logistics’ is hardly one of the sexier words in the red-hot space of mobile finance and commerce. Nevertheless,
September 08, 2015 Astroturf Apptivism and the Sharing Economy The capacity of the internet to connect buyers and sellers in new marketplaces is almost as old as
August 14, 2015 The Bitcoin Regulatory Paradox The ways in which Bitcoin could innovate the e-commerce and m-commerce sectors is not a new conversation. Mondato
June 17, 2015 Will Apple and Samsung Get Zapped? In the world of mobile payments, much attention of late has focused on the collision in the United
April 08, 2015 Is Samsung Going to Steal Apple's Pay Thunder? The “year of mobile payments” has been a long time coming, but it finally appears that 2015 is
March 04, 2015 MWC 2015: Same Same But Different? It is that time of the year again, when 90,000 hardy souls converge on the Spanish city
January 20, 2015 48 Hours with No Cash and No Plastic Day One It’s 5:10. I am exactly one alarm snooze behind schedule, but still should be