UPDATE: M-PESA won’t be offline Saturday morning
As part of the transition of Safaricom from a telco to an enabler platform, the company has been working on ...
Sunday, July 21, 2019
Tag: mobile money
How growth in e-commerce offers new opportunities for entrepreneurs.
This may be surprising to hear, and even superior to see that entrepreneurs are maximizing the benefit of Internet presence. ...
Why Equitel Poses As A Game Changer In Mobile Money Transactions.
It is the minute that the banking industry in Kenya is facing a lot of challenges specifically on governance issues, ...
Orange Money and Vivo Energy sign a Pan-African payments deal
Orange Money and Vivo Energy have signed a deal that will see Orange customers have access to a network of ...
Mobile money’s rapid growth changes financial services on how Kenyans access loans.
Mobile money revolution is all over across countries in Africa, With large sections of the population unbanked yet actively using ...
WeCashUp wants to help every online merchant in Africa to accept mobile money payments
Set to launch later this month, WeCashUp aims to be a universal mobile payment platform that will enable online merchants ...
Equitel now Kenya’s second biggest mover of mobile money
Equitel has grown to become Kenya’s second biggest mover of mobile money as theplatform now accounts for 14 per cent ...
Ericsson & Grundfos deploy mobile money-powered water ATMs in Kenya
Ericsson and Grundfos have deployed their Grundfos AQtap, a water ATM that dispenses water and supports sustainable water management in ...
MTN South Africa to discontinue its mobile money service
MTN South Africa, the country's second largest mobile network has pulled the plug on new mobile money sign ups in ...
Equitel launches ”multiple approval” feature for joint account mobile money withdrawals
In a move to secure mobile money withdrawals by investment groups, chamas and joint account holders, Equitel has launched a ...
Accessibility is crucial for mobile payments and financial inclusion in Nigeria – Paga
Jay Alabraba, Paga's Co-founder and Director of Business Development, believes that accessibility has critical roles to play in the future ...
With $1.4M Equity Seed Round, Branch.co Aims to Take on Banks in Kenya
With $1.4 million in seed funding from Formation 8 and the Khosla Impact Fund, Matt Flannery, co-founder and ex-CEO Kiva.org, ...
Sub-Saharan Africa beats South Asia at formal savings at financial institutions
The World Bank’s Global Findex Report (2014) analyses the state of financial inclusion in the world. Sub-Saharan Africans (SSAs) are ...
CEO Weekends: WorldRemit hires leading Mobile Money specialist
Online money transfer service WorldRemit has appointed Alix Murphy as Senior Mobile Analyst. A leading Mobile Money specialist, Alix will help ...
Vodafone & MTN Interconnect their Mobile Money Services in East Africa
In a very welcome move today, Vodafone and MTN announced that customers of M-Pesa and MTN Mobile Money in East ...
UK’s Xpress Money Partners MTN Ghana For Mobile Remittances
International money transfer company Xpress Money will now allow customers to send money to their family, friends and business partners ...
Kenya Shuts Down 13 Money Transfer Companies On Terrorism Claims
13 money transfer firms have had their licenses suspended by the Kenya government for claims of participating in the funding ...
Mobile West Africa 2015 garners industry-wide support
The 5th edition of Mobile West Africa, which is scheduled to take place between 21 and 23 April in Lagos, ...
Econet Zimbabwe & National Foods Partner To Make Shopping Effective
Econet Zimbabwe has taken shopping to the next level; the telco company has enabled all its customers using EcoCash ...
Software Engineering student to give South Sudan its first mobile money transfer service
South Sudan is well on its way to getting own mobile money transfer service courtesy of a software engineering student ...
2 billion people to join mobile banking in Africa by 2030- Bill Gates
By 2030, 2 billion people who don't have a bank account today will be storing money and making payment with ...
Ethiopia to reach the unbanked with new mobile moneyscheme
A huge part of the unbanked population in Ethiopia is set to benefit from mobile money services being launched by ...
Kenya’s MyRCPT Wants to be Your Mpesa Receipting Buddy
A new application available on the Safaricom store dubbed MyRCPT aims to help users generate PDF receipts from their Lipa ...
How Kenya Spends | An Analysis of Holiday Purchase Trends
By Ben Lyon, co-founder and Director, Kopo Kopo, follow him on Twitter (@bmlyon) This post originally appeared on Kopokopo.com here ...
Sub-Saharan Africa leads the world’s emerging markets in electronic payment regulation
The Economist’s 2014 Global Microscope Index and Report (GMI) assesses the regulatory environment for financial inclusion in 55 emerging economies ...
Dau-Pesa Goes Live in Tanzania to Simplify POS & Bill Payments
Image credits:charaz.blogspot.com Tanzania's Informal Sector Worker Union has launched Dau-Pesa, a money transfer and payment service to ...
Cardplanet Becomes First Kenyan Startup to be Accepted Into 500 Startups
This must be the greatest news I have had to share about the Kenyan startup ecosystem this year. Two Kenyan ...
Equity Bank Reinstates M-Pesa Mobile Money after a Two Day Downtime
After two days of not being able to access popular mobile money services on Equity Bank Automated Teller Machines, clients ...
WorldRemit & Tanzania’s Zantel EzyPesa Partner for Online Money Transfer Service
Tanzania's Zantel EzyPesa has partnered with online money transfer service WorldRemit in a move that will allow EzyPesa customers receive ...
FNB launches regional money transfer app
South Africa’s First National Bank (FNB) has unveiled its new app that will make it possible for its customers to ...