June 05, 2024 Betting on Chaos: Africa’s Thriving Online Gambling Industry For 36-year-old Zimbabwean Charles Mpeni, a former civil servant and gambling addict, betting on horses was a harmless
January 10, 2024 Three Fintech Trends From 2023 — And How They May Look In 2024 In 2023, the dichotomy between success and failure in the fintech world never felt more stark. Emerging technologies
February 01, 2023 Cross-Border Integration and The Future of Frictionless Finance As 2023 gets underway, it is still not clear whether the shots of digitization induced by the pandemic
November 23, 2022 Mobile Money In Zimbabwe: Shaken, But Still Standing The popularity of mobile money in Zimbabwe is stifled by the government’s policies, high transaction fees and
October 26, 2022 Gambling And Fintech: Two Sides Of The Same Coin? Similar to cannabis [https://blog.mondato.com/the-cannabis-industry-is-going-digital/], the growing legal acceptance of gambling in the United States
September 28, 2022 Brazil’s Pix: Should Instant Payment Rails Be A Public Good? When Mondato Insight last discussed [https://blog.mondato.com/whatsapp-payments-case-study-brazil/] instant payments in Brazil in 2020, Brazil’s
February 02, 2022 Instant Payments: A Key To Financial Inclusion? Instant payments, or real-time payments, are the future. Instant payments have considerably accelerated during the pandemic, driven by
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,
October 27, 2021 Big Tech in Financial Services: A New Regulatory Paradigm The digital age began in the 1990s with the Internet’s “information superhighway.” For the first time in
July 07, 2021 Blockchain’s Emerging Opportunities in Emerging Markets If futurists’ predictions about the paradigm-shifting impact of digital ledger technologies — more commonly known as blockchain — are realized,
June 30, 2021 The Dangers of the One-Click Buy Paradigm The fintech revolution has centered around the idea of making payments frictionless, painless and flush with options. The
May 12, 2021 COVID’s G2P Revolution: Togo as a Case Study Effective targeting is critical for government programs as well as market penetration strategies to succeed — a challenge exacerbated
March 03, 2021 Is Covid the “Big Bang” of Digital Payments? As we enter the second year of the Covid pandemic, headlines are still dominated by the global transition
May 20, 2020 The Death Of Cash: Greatly Exaggerated? The death of cash has been foretold for years. Among other causes, the rise of digital payment tools
April 15, 2020 Digital Distancing: The Key To Payments Reimagined Digital payments are receiving much special attention at the moment. Firstly, officials in China and elsewhere hypothesized early
March 03, 2020 Better Payments, Better Apps: The Sharing Economy Wars The so-called “sharing economy,” led by ride-sharing pioneers like Uber and home-sharing pioneers like Airbnb, has expanded to
December 04, 2019 Consolidation: The Only Path for Ecommerce? Facebook's notorious Libra melodrama over the last few months is just one example suggesting that big
October 02, 2019 The Biggest Ideas at Finovate Fall 2019 If the next billion-dollar fintech was being pitched this week, it was probably happening in New York. Over
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
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.
August 20, 2019 Remittances: Ending Cash-Out Thirty years after being first introduced, digital remittances have failed to truly take off. 90 percent of remittances
August 13, 2019 Crowdfunding 2.0: The Membership Model Artists, musicians, writers, filmmakers and other creatives struggle every day to be equitably compensated for their labor. Quite
August 06, 2019 Mojaloop: Taking Stock For some time now, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has preoccupied itself with fragmented payment ecosystems. This
March 26, 2019 Are The Economics Of Cash Crumbling? Since the dawn of civilization, physical currency has been the backbone of everyday commerce. But in 2019, prophesies