Tag: Mobile Network Operators (MNOs)

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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
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September 24, 2019

MVNOs: Where Telcos And Digital Finance Converge?

Mobile virtual network operators (MVNOs) have been around for almost three decades. Initially conceived as a way for
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September 11, 2019

eSIM: Fresh Paint For Mobile, Payments And Identity

If Apple has anything to say about it, embedded SIM cards, or eSIMs, may be poised to replace
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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.
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February 12, 2019

Credit Bureaus: Resting On Their Laurels?

With the advent of alternative data, many lenders in emerging markets have side-stepped the barren vaults of Credit
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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
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August 21, 2018

Impact Investing: From Microfinance To Fintech

Impact investing, or an investment strategy that weighs both financial and social returns at least somewhat equally, has
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May 29, 2018

Mobile Credit: The Airtime, Mobile Money Dichotomy

The delivery of mobile credit (at least when transported on the rails of mobile network operators) has been
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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
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January 16, 2018

Zimbabwe's Cash Crunch: Boom Time for MNOs

When historians assess the legacy of Zimbabwe's recently ousted president, Robert Mugabe, they will have plenty
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September 05, 2017

When Telcos and FSPs Intersect

These days, and with very few exceptions, if you aren’t doing mobile then you aren’t doing
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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
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August 01, 2017

The Data Debacle: Insights Falling Through The Cracks?

Even as DFC products - like mobile money - become a more important commercial component of the margins
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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
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December 09, 2015

Can an MNO Build Its Own Ecosystem?

It rarely makes headlines when mobile money is under discussion, but Zimbabwe has one of the most developed
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September 16, 2015

Don't Worry; Be 'API

Formerly only a subject for computer geeks and digital media workers, ‘application programming interfaces’, or APIs, have lately
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July 08, 2015

The Secret Sauce for Success in MFS?

A great deal has been written about what factors are important in generating scale in a mobile money
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October 29, 2014

Telcos and the Connected Consumer

When two of Europe’s largest telcos, Orange and T-Mobile, combined their services in the UK, they decided
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June 24, 2014

Mondato Summit Africa: Day 2 Round-up

See here [http://mondato.com/blog/mondato-summit-africa/] for the full Storify of both days of the Mondato Summit
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March 05, 2013

What Is The Role of Mobile Money In The OTT Debate?

With an influx of OTT providers pinching mobile operators’ revenues, how can telcos leverage mobile money to stay
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