This week’s Insight dives into the heart of Africa’s awakening digital giant: the Democratic Republic of the Congo. blog.mondato.com/bridging-the-d…

Primed to benefit most from real-time payment schemes are emerging markets, where the potential for improved efficiencies and financial outcomes is vast. blog.mondato.com/instant-paymen… Pan-African Payment And Settlement System - PAPSS AfricaNenda Imburse CMA Small Systems AB

Platform-based B2B companies are managing to increasingly capture the informal economy while providing merchants an initial pathway towards financial inclusion. blog.mondato.com/b2bs-reaching-…

Applied in different ways using different technology, fintech can be either an enabler or an impediment to sanctions regimes. And likewise, recent cases show how sanctions can fundamentally alter the shape of fintech ecosystems. blog.mondato.com/fintechs-pivot…

SACCOs are transforming decades-old business models, enabling greater efficiencies for their members. However, with this change comes risks in data security — which many SACCOs have failed to properly address, and with potentially disastrous consequences. blog.mondato.com/digitizing-sac…

If even central banks are starting to get it, then maybe we are closer than we think to the future of money. blog.mondato.com/central-bank-d…

Will The Metaverse Transform Fintech As We Know It? blog.mondato.com/will-the-metav… Decentraland Upland @tokens_com

Underlying the hype lies the reality that we are witnessing in real time blockchain technologies emerge from papers to pilots to projects. blog.mondato.com/blockchain-rea…

Apple and M-Pesa's evolutions are prescriptive in understanding how platform economies manifest under emerging and developed markets — and whether the platform ethos slowly dissolves strategic differences among tech giants even of contrasting origins blog.mondato.com/what-m-pesa-an…

“Personalization” methods may fail to account for demographic exceptions so that those requiring the most tailored solutions are instead excluded altogether. blog.mondato.com/the-disabled-f…

At last week's two-day Mondato Summit, stakeholders and leaders from leading DFS organizations gathered in Mozambique to discuss digital transformation and inclusion in a pandemic-altered Africa blog.mondato.com/beyond-access-…

If the dot com crash presaged Internet supremacy, the current challenges are a harsh prerequisite for a transformed digital economy to come. blog.mondato.com/not-all-fintec…

Currently available interventions and solutions, including government programs and the private sector , fail to adequately address the pressing issue. blog.mondato.com/will-informal-…

One of the most exciting emerging fintech hubs, Vietnamese fintech so far has been a contradictory amalgam of creation and destruction, vision and chaos, innovation and imitation blog.mondato.com/vietnamese-fin…

In Fintech, in which engagement is key, data is king and paths to monetization often don’t comprise a single road but a lattice of symbiotic solutions, competency is increasingly proven in a self-actualizing ecosystem, not a one-off product @MFS_Africa blog.mondato.com/integrated-sol…

blog.mondato.com/is-alternative… None of the eight drivers interviewed by Mondato had successfully managed to own a vehicle through alternative financing companies in the market.

In the case of one-time opportunistic friendly fraudsters, it can be nearly impossible to catch blog.mondato.com/the-conundrum-…

The technology fueling viral AI breakthroughs, synthetic data makes possible a world where financial services companies can create and share accurate data that is not finite, is not privacy-sensitive and adjustable to eliminate historical biases blog.mondato.com/synthetic-data…

Numerous factors go into the success of a given country’s tech sector. But if instability or even the perception of it takes hold, then investors, entrepreneurs and tech talent can react with their money and feet. blog.mondato.com/israel-can-sen…

What happens to the tiniest of markets? Are they left behind, or does innovation find a way where it’s least expected? @UNCDFdigital SING SA blog.mondato.com/small-scale-se…