May 10, 2022 The Disabled Face AI-Driven Exclusion — Despite Huge Market Potential The disability community, despite possessing over $1.2 trillion in annual disposable income, remains highly unbanked and underbanked
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 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 to roll out a digital currency issued by its
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 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
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
December 22, 2021 Australia’s Digital Economy: On The Precipice Of Transformation? Buoyed by industry-leading initiatives like a rails-unifying New Payments Platform, optimists view Australia as on the precipice of
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,
November 24, 2021 Fintech’s Funding Bonanza: A Bubble Or Warranted? Funding and valuations have skyrocketed across tech sectors, yet arguably none stands out more than fintech. One in
October 27, 2021 Big Tech in Financial Services: A New Regulatory Paradigm The digital age began in the 1990s with the Internet’s “information superhighway.” For the first time in
October 20, 2021 From Mobile Money Powerhouse to Super App: The Case of M-Pesa After much fanfare, Safaricom launched its M-Pesa super app in Kenya in June 2021, following in the footsteps
October 13, 2021 Can Utilities Digitize in Africa? Utilities are odd organizations. They provide vital critical services like clean water, electricity, waste and sanitation, whose importance
September 08, 2021 Can Africa Leapfrog Towards Open Banking? Open banking is seen in some circles as the next great leap forward in digital finance. By allowing
August 18, 2021 From Seed To Table: How Fintech Will Optimize Food Systems When it comes to food security and production, financial inclusion initiatives have long recognized the benefits of access
July 14, 2021 Digital Lending’s Self-Regulation: A Redemption Story? For years now, digital lending in emerging markets has faced public rebuke for at times utilizing deceptive marketing
June 23, 2021 The Final Frontier of Content Streaming: Emerging Markets Competition for content streaming and distribution services in the developed world has been intensifying since 2019, and these
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
June 02, 2021 Cryptocurrency: At A Regulatory Crossroads After months of skyrocketing values, the past month saw a precipitous drop in cryptocurrency prices, with the value
May 26, 2021 Has Ethiopia's Digital Finance Moment Finally Come? May has marked some exciting milestones for Ethiopia and its digital ecosystem, which has piqued the interest of
May 19, 2021 Fintech’s Cybersecurity Soft Spot: Vendors Recent cyberattacks on IT resources firm Solar Winds and energy supplier Colonial Pipeline may look like they have
May 12, 2021 COVID’s G2P Revolution: Togo as a Case Study Effective targeting is critical for government programs as well as market penetration strategies to succeed — a challenge exacerbated