June 14, 2023 South Africa: A Model Of Stability Or Stymied Innovation? Fintech in South Africa is one of many caveats. A country with a highly banked population — yet one
May 31, 2023 Small Scale Series: Island Hopping Across the Caribbean Approximately 45 million people spread out over 7,000 islands, 13 independent countries, 20 territories, six official languages,
March 22, 2023 Israel: Can Sentiment Alter A Tech Sector’s Trajectory? With the “Start-up Nation” brand and all, Israel punches far above its weight when it comes to tech.
January 18, 2023 ChatGPT: The Challenges And Opportunities Coming To Financial Services It’s been decades since algorithmic trading transformed Wall Street with its high-frequency trading and years since the
July 05, 2022 Integrated Solutions: The Sole Path To Sustainability And Scalability? Once upon a time, businesses focused on core competencies: do what you do best, and capture the given
May 10, 2022 The Disabled Face AI-Driven Exclusion — Despite Huge Market Potential The disability community, despite possessing over $1.2 trillion [https://www.ilo.org/global/about-the-ilo/newsroom/news/WCMS_
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,
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
August 04, 2021 Does Crypto Hype In Latin America Exceed, Meet — Or Make — Reality? How one views the advent of cryptocurrencies in Latin America can be a Rorschach test for how one
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
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:
June 09, 2019 Regulatory Sandboxes: Worthwhile In Developing Countries? The predecessor of the regulatory sandbox first appeared in 2012, when the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) inaugurated
October 21, 2015 The Lion Tweets Tonight? The rest of the world is slowly waking up to the fact that the digital revolution is not
February 18, 2015 Mobile Mary? In most places around the world, the direction of travel in transactions and payments is towards digitization. The
February 04, 2015 Mobile Money and the Ebola Crisis Although the Ebola virus that spread late last year through parts of West Africa claimed the lives of
January 28, 2015 Colombia: Building a Digital Ecosystem Through Public Private Partnership Haga clic aquí para leer en español. [http://mondato.com/blog/la-construccion-de-un-ecosistema-digital-en-colombia/] For much of its recent history,
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
November 12, 2014 Mondato Summit Asia: The Highlights Find out what were the quotable quotes and the insights you missed at Mondato Summit Asia 2014. (Scroll
November 05, 2014 There was something in the air at CARTES 2014 For the best part of three decades, CARTES has been a staple of the payments industry calendar, and
July 07, 2014 Southeast Asia: A Region of Extremes And Opportunities Urbanization, digitization and globalization are the three forces whose convergence will shape the 21st-century economy. Consequently, Southeast Asia
June 24, 2014 Paym: Why UK customers are unlikely to be "Venmo-ing" any time soon Unlike in the United States, where despite considerable consolidation over the past 25 years there still remain over
June 03, 2014 Does Bitcoin Have a Future As a Currency? Since the last Mondato Insight [http://mondato.com/blog/can-digital-currencies-change-the-world/] that looked at Bitcoin it has certainly been
October 14, 2013 Three Ways to Become an mCommerce Disruptor “The most used mobile payment device is still the plastic card”-Bank of America, Aditya Bhasin Mobile is
February 20, 2013 Remittance Titans Target The Financially Excluded While Western Union and other remittance giants have made strides to build allegiance among immigrant populations, a legion