The GDC Blog What better time to trot out old hockey metaphors than the opening weeks of the NHL season? And while I’m no particular fanatic of the sport, I’ve always found much wisdom in Wayne (“The Great One”) Gretzky’s famous quip to...
The GDC Blog I recently read and listened to an interview from Jack Ma (see below) that made it clear to me that he as a vision for Alibaba that goes well beyond simply enabling business to business or business to consumer trade in China. He intends to take on both...
The GDC Blog Amazon announced this past week that it would open a logistics warehouse in Shanghai’s Free Trade Zone that will allow it to expand the import and export of goods in China. Clearly this is a move to sharpen the competitive nature of things against its...
The GDC Blog Recently, I came across an article that describes how three of the mobile money platforms in Tanzania have signed a partnership that will allow for inter-network transfers. This type of cross platform connection will allow for diaspora networks to more...
The GDC Blog Helix Institute of Digital Finance has recently published a report on mobile payment in Nigeria. Based on interviews with mobile payment agents, the research points out that aside from regulatory uncertainty — which led mobile payment providers in...
