Insights & Updates
Expert insights on fintech, digital payments, and financial inclusion in emerging markets.
Part 5: A better fit for the informal economy
Non-custodial wallets align naturally with the structure of informal economies. This article explains why ownership, flexibility, and independence matter more than rigid financial models.
Part 4: Everyday trade made simpler
Non-custodial wallets simplify daily trade for informal merchants. This article explores payments, supplier coordination, and cash flow in real-world informal markets.
Part 3: Saving with confidence
Inflation erodes the savings of informal traders. This article explains how non-custodial wallets enable stable saving and responsible access to optional yield.
Part 2: Protection from system failures
System outages, account freezes, and sudden rule changes hit informal traders hardest. This article explains how non-custodial wallets reduce systemic risk and improve resilience in the informal economy.
Part 1: Ownership, not just access
Access to digital payments is not enough for informal traders. This article explains why financial ownership matters and how non-custodial wallets restore control, resilience, and long-term stability.
Part 11: Reshaping economic participation
Stablecoins may reshape how people participate in local and global economies. This article explores long-term impacts on trade, inclusion, and opportunity.
Part 10: Risks, responsibilities, and safeguards
Stablecoins offer clear benefits but also carry responsibilities. This article explores risks, safeguards, and how stablecoin systems can remain trustworthy.
Part 9: Reshaping local supply chains
Stablecoins improve local supply chains by reducing payment friction, delays, and uncertainty. This article explains the impact on everyday commerce.
Part 8: Scaling stablecoins in local economies
Stablecoins can support local trade at scale when the right conditions exist. This article explores infrastructure, trust, regulation, and adoption readiness.
Part 7: Myths about stablecoins debunked
Stablecoins are often misunderstood. This article addresses common myths and explains what stablecoins are and are not in everyday local trade.
Part 6: Stablecoins in practice for local trade
Stablecoins are often seen as complex or technical. This article explains how stablecoins work in practice for everyday local trade and small businesses.
Part 5: Stable money and informal economies
Stable digital money supports informal trade, financial inclusion, and economic resilience. This article explores how stablecoins create long-term impact.
Part 4: Why reliable money matters most
Speed and familiarity do not guarantee trust. This article explains why reliable money systems matter more for local trade and small businesses.
Part 3: Lowering remittance and cross-border costs
High remittance fees and complex cross-border payments hold back families and small businesses. This article explains how stablecoins reduce costs and simplify cross-border trade.
Part 2: Stable value transforms merchant decisions
Stable value changes how merchants price, save, and plan. This article explains how stablecoins improve everyday business decisions in local trade. Part 2 of the series: Stable money for real trade.
Part 1: Why money instability is the biggest hidden barrier to local trade
Unstable currencies, inflation, and payment friction quietly limit local trade. This article explains why money instability hurts small businesses and how stablecoins remove these barriers. Part 1 of the series: Stable money for real trade.
Stablecoins are quietly changing how local trade works
Not through hype or speculation, but by solving real problems that merchants, traders, and families face every day.
Bridging the cash and digital divide in emerging markets
Cash tracking has long been missing from digital tools. By unifying cash and digital sales in one system, Blipply empowers every merchant to grow, access credit, and take full control of their business.
A breakthrough for informal merchants in Kenya
Fragmented wallets have kept millions of merchants locked out of digital payments. By supporting Kenya's KE-QR standard, Blipply ends fragmentation and empowering every merchant to accept any digital payment.
Kenya's digital payment boom: key trends
Kenya is redefining digital payments. As mobile money reshapes the economy, Blipply provides the next-generation infrastructure that empowers partners to scale, connect, and serve a fully digital Africa.
Why Africa's next fintech wave is being built by invisible systems
Africa's next fintech wave is invisible. The real breakthroughs aren't storefronts or apps, they're systems like Blipply that turn everyday trade into trusted data, powering credit, inclusion, and growth across the continent.
Concerns to go digital holds people back
Real concerns keep merchants tied to cash. Generic tools do not solve scams, delays, or trust issues. Blipply is built for these realities, giving traders security, speed, and growth in one simple app.
Why merchants must go mobile to grow
Running offline hides your business from growth. Without digital tools you miss bookings, lose track of sales, risk fraud, and cannot prove income. Blipply puts it all in one app so you can grow anywhere.
Forgetting cash - the smart choice
Cash leaves no trace. There's no record of your income, spending, your sales or how many customers you have. So while cash might feel safe and familiar, it's actually one of the biggest barriers to your progress.
Fintech's role in financial literacy
Low financial literacy limits budgeting and access to services for low-income earners. Fintech platforms like Blipply offer tools to track income, control spending, and boost financial knowledge.
Digital payments increases security
Digital payments improve safety for informal merchants by lowering cash risks, securing transactions, and providing a clear sales record. Learn how Blipply safeguards earnings and enhances financial stability.
Tech empowers female entrepreneurs
Female entrepreneurs drive Africa's informal economy but struggle with cash-based challenges. Platforms like Blipply empower them with safer, accessible tools to grow businesses and advance gender equality.
Impact of cashless payments
How switching from cash and card payments to digital payments offers environmental benefits. Research shows how digital payments can reduce carbon emissions and resource use.
Credit scoring: a path to financial inclusion
In Africa's informal economy, cash dependency limits financial history and access to financial services. Blipply bridges the gap by helping users become financially included through shopping.
Incentives drive lasting behaviour change
How tailored incentives can drive sustainable behaviour change in Africa's informal economy: a pathway to digital payments and, in the long term, financial and digital inclusion.
Driving inclusion in informal economies
How aid organisations can partner with Fintech platforms and banks to enhance financial inclusion in informal economies through innovative programmes and guarantees.
Achieving financial and digital inclusion
What it means and how to get there. Being financially and digitally included requires a digital financial history, a credit score, and a verified digital identity.
Zero fees: The key to financial inclusion
Why zero transaction fees are essential for digital payment growth and financial inclusion in Africa's informal economy. Lower costs mean more transactions and more opportunities.