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 [https://www.npr.org/2021/04/16/985439655/a-worst-nightmare-cyberattack-the-untold-story-of-the-solarwinds-hack] and
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
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
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
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
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:
January 27, 2021 Minding the DFS Gender Gap: Battling Social Norms to Level the Playing Field Last week, Mondato hosted a webinar focused on the digital financial services (DFS) gender gap, as part of
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,
June 10, 2020 Women In Charge: A FinTech Business Case Is the role of women in the workplace a question of corporate social responsibility, or also one of
April 07, 2020 Startups Won't Survive Unless They Play Both Sides Three months in, and 2020 has already introduced significant risk into the financial services sector, from deposit runs
March 25, 2020 Will COVID-19 Lead To Bigger, Better Borrowing? Mere weeks following its arrival on the global stage, the COVID-19 epidemic has already wreaked havoc on health
March 10, 2020 Why Western Union Is Still King Of Remittances P2P cross-border transfers - known as remittances - have long occupied a critically important role in the modern
March 03, 2020 Better Payments, Better Apps: The Sharing Economy Wars The so-called “sharing economy,” led by ride-sharing pioneers like Uber and home-sharing pioneers like Airbnb, has expanded to
November 06, 2019 Removing The Risk From Bank-Fintech Partnerships It's a worldwide phenomenon: instead of competing in a zero-sum game with emerging fintech firms, banks
October 29, 2019 Brazil: Digital Finance at the Speed of Light Less than a decade after the first startups began to challenge the traditional banking ecosystem in Brazil, growth
October 08, 2019 Digital Banking in Asia: How to Regulate a Revolution Since 2014, digital banking penetration has increased by between 1.5- and 3-fold across emerging markets in Asia.
July 30, 2019 Senegal: Turtle Or Hare Of West Africa DFC? Senegal has long occupied a special place in Francophone West Africa. Home to the historical capital of the
July 09, 2019 Nudging And Financial Health: A Force For Good? What does it take to change people’s financial behavior for the better? An often complex, scary endeavor