January 07, 2020 Maps, Money, & Mobile: Defining Geospatial Commerce In Partnership with: In today’s internet-driven, data-rich world, innumerable brick-and-mortar operations have failed as stand-alone entities because
October 23, 2019 Is Mobile Money Helping or Harming Zimbabwe? Zimbabwe’s economy is going through another nose-dive. The Mnangagwa administration, faced with re-instilling trust in the economy
October 16, 2019 S-Commerce: Shopping End-to-end With Family & Friends Social media’s journey towards monetization, laborious though it has been, appears to be striking pay dirt at
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
September 18, 2018 Smartphones: The Future Of African Urban Planning? Humanity faces the mammoth task of adding over 2 billion people to the urban population before 2050, the
May 15, 2018 Will Mobile Money Drive Digital Media In Africa? Traditionally, advertising has been the driving fuel for the production of the information we consume. But in emerging
September 26, 2017 The GSMA Innovation Funds: Kick-Starting Scale Somewhere along the way, the mobile phone came to represent the hinterlands of capacity-building in emerging economies. While
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
November 08, 2016 Mobile Money: Making mHealth Sustainable In the majority of mobile service use cases, fees charged to the end-user are usually a key element
November 01, 2016 How Do You Say "Mobile Payments' World Leader" in Chinese? Much like Frank Sinatra, China has a well-deserved reputation for doing things its own way. So much so,
October 04, 2016 Post Offices: A Crucial Piece of Digital Finance Infrastructure? Over the past year, Mondato Insight has noted the central role that logistics has to play in the
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
June 24, 2015 What Will the Bank of the Future Look Like? Banks! What are they good for? If you listen to some of the evangelists of the “disruptive technology
March 04, 2015 MWC 2015: Same Same But Different? It is that time of the year again, when 90,000 hardy souls converge on the Spanish city
January 14, 2015 The Rise of the Cheap Smartphone Moore’s Law observes that over the history of computing, processing speeds have doubled every two years. Whether
December 30, 2014 What Lies in Store in 2015? In Mondato Insight’s recent Year in Review edition, we took a look back at our predictions from
December 17, 2014 2014: The year in Review As the year draws to a close, and we begin to think forward to our New Year’s
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
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
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
January 07, 2014 The State of Mobile Financial Services: 2014 As you trickle back from your vacation destinations and return to strategic planning sessions, it is important to
November 08, 2012 Digitizing Democracy: Can Mobile Impact Elections? A rise in digital donations has far-reaching implications beyond election season – influencing the electoral process and the inner-workings
November 07, 2012 And The Winner Is...Mobile Donations The votes are in and Barack Obama will be the President of the United States for the next