Kenya’s Safaricom said on Friday its mobile money platform M-PESA has reached 40 million monthly active customers, marking a major milestone as the service celebrates 19 years since launch and continues to expand its role in the country’s financial ecosystem. Launched on March 6, 2007 as a simple person-to-person money...

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