October 20, 2021 From Mobile Money Powerhouse to Super App: The Case of M-Pesa After much fanfare, Safaricom launched its M-Pesa super app in Kenya in June 2021, following in the footsteps
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
March 31, 2021 Data, Diversify, Distribute: Emerging Optimization Models 2020 brought with it a 12.7 percent increase in the number of registered mobile money accounts, bringing
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 03, 2021 Pandemic-Proof? Revisiting Remittance Rails Succeeding in the money transfer industry is no mean feat, and requires mastering the ins and outs of
December 10, 2019 Digital Literacy: To Read And Write In Mobile Mobile money technology allows people to receive, send, store, and spend money directly from their cell phones. There
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
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 23, 2019 Sex Work: Safety In Digital? Humanity’s oldest profession has gone digital. Facing legal perils and issues in safety, health and lack of
June 25, 2019 Ethiopia: Time To Do Or Die? Ethiopia just might be the sleeping fintech giant of East Africa. Aside from being home to a population
June 04, 2019 The Last Mile: Mobile Money Agents Mobile money agents - frequently described as the “bridges” to financial inclusion - constitute the last-mile distribution network
May 07, 2019 Financial Inclusion: Chutes And Ladders? Financial inclusion at the base of the economic pyramid has often been conceptualized as a sort of ladder
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
November 13, 2018 Beyond The Binaries: Mobile Money Access Revisited Earlier this year, Mondato explored the insights emerging from the Global Findex data-set on financial inclusion, highlighting the
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
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
June 26, 2018 MENA: A Digital Finance Desert Or Oasis? There tends to be a great deal of reductionism when conversation turns to the Middle East and North
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
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
May 08, 2018 Global Findex 2017: West Africa Steps Into The Spotlight When the World Bank's 2014 Global Findex numbers were published, the banner headline figures announced a 700 million
April 02, 2018 Digital-Only Banks Go Global A little less than a year ago, Mondato weighed the future of the bank branch. While North American
February 19, 2018 International Remittance Hubs: Interoperability Evolving Most countries are fumbling to find the proper footing, momentum or buy-in to coordinate a national campaign for
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