In 2014, Kenya's payments aggregator PesaPal achieved PesaPal is PCI-DSS Level 1 certification to ensure that all transactions over its platform are secure, and trusted with sensitive payment information by both merchants and cardholders shopping online or offline. Now, PesaPal has added PCI PIN security certification for its mobile point ...
Near Field Communication (NFC)-enabled POS terminals have been introduced in Nigeria by United Bank for Africa Plc in partnership with Unified Payment Systems Limited. The service is dubbed PayAttitude, a faster and seamless, contactless payment solution that the bank said never fails. UBA’s Divisional Head for e-Banking, Yinka Adedeji, said: ...
Rwanda's National bank (BNR) has warned businesses with Point Of Sale devices against charging transactional fees to customer who use electronic cards terming it illegal. In a statement , the central bank corporate communications expert Doreen Makumi, said that hey have identified a number of businesses doing this but they ...
Kenya’s biggest bank by market share Equity Bank is set to hand out more than 300,000 Near Field Communication (NFC) smartphones to restraurants, retail stores and supermarkets throughout the east African country. Retailers will not have to pay a dime for these handsets since they are cheaper, secure and much ...
Mobile operator Safaricom plans on eradicating restrictions on its Bonga Points loyalty programme to allow customers redeem items of preference as opposed to the usual specific offers given by the telcom. Subscribers have been forced to choose from the options given as options by Safaricom in the past which often ...
