May 08, 2024 Brazil and India Usher In The Open Finance Era It took a few years of discussions, proposals and frustrations for open banking to become an actual, concrete
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
September 03, 2019 Public Banking: Time To Make Room? Agnostic of industry, the private sector is often esteemed over the public sector for its better performance in
August 27, 2019 Payments Banks: Nigeria Takes A Page From India Since it was rebased in 2014, Nigeria’s economy overtook South Africa’s as the largest in Africa.
June 18, 2019 Paytm: Are One Billion Credit Cards Coming To Asia? Consumers in developed markets, particularly the U.S., love credit cards. According to Experian, 60.5 percent of
April 08, 2019 Democratizing Investing: Stuck In A Rut? Last year, Mondato Insight lamented the state of global savings - especially as it relates to pensions. If
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
November 06, 2018 Payments Banks To UltraFICO: Targeting No Man's Land Despite disruptive business models building momentum towards increased digitization in financial services, it is likely just a matter
October 16, 2018 Will Modern MFIs Energize Pay As You Go? The off-grid energy industry is one of the most successful sectors serving the base of the economic pyramid
February 06, 2018 Do Bank-Led Models Stall Progress? Although the dichotomy of bank-led and mobile network operator-led (henceforth referred to as MNO-led) mobile money regulatory approaches
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 14, 2017 Stacking The Deck In India's Favor Over the past several years, Mondato Insight has repeatedly turned its attention to Digital Finance and Commerce (DFC)
October 03, 2017 Is Your Country Ready To Go Cashless? As Mondato Insight has often discussed in a variety of contexts, there are two fundamental requirements for any
August 08, 2017 Does Demonetisation Work? While the Indian government's dramatic and surprise demonetisation campaign garnered most of the headlines, India is
June 27, 2017 The Winners And Losers in Mobile Money When the GSMA released the 2016 mobile money 'State of the Industry Report' at Mobile World
June 13, 2017 Is Paytm The New DFC Poster Child? If you follow developments in the Digital Finance and Commerce (DFC) space, you get no prize for knowing
March 11, 2015 Unleashing India's Potential (Part 2) In the first part of this two-part blog post on mobile finance and commerce (MFC) in India, Mondato
February 25, 2015 Unleashing India's Potential (Part 1) In 2011, the last year for which the World Bank records data, just 35% of Indians over the
March 05, 2013 Can mPOS Platforms Succeed In Emerging Markets? The success of mobile point-of-sale (mPOS) offerings in the US and Europe has inspired the emergence of similar