Tag: m-pesa
VIDEO: Seven Cool Things To Do With The New M-PESA App
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vx9cPA3gsFI
The M-PESA app is officially here, having been in the pilot phase for more than six months.
The app, as its name suggests, packages...
Huawei Users Can Now Pay For Apps In AppGallery Via M-PESA
Safaricom and Huawei have launched a payments platform that will allow Huawei phone users to pay for apps and games.
Named Direct Carrier Billing (DCB),...
M-PESA Services Back Online After an Afternoon of Delays
Safaricom launched the new M-PESA app today. This means it is officially out of beta, although the Play Store listing is yet to reflect...
Safaricom’s M-PESA May Launch In Ethiopia After All
Rumours about a Safaricom entry in Ethiopia, and effectively the launch of M-PESA services in the country started way back in 2019. Months later...
M-PESA-Amazon Integration Imminent, But It Solves One Part of The Problem
The development is part’s of Safaricom’s plan to boost its M-PESA earnings following revenue drops during the 2021 FY.
Safaricom M-PESA and Business Apps Are Down
Some of you may have noticed that the M-PESA app is not working. The issue started at around 1 PM today and is still...
M-PESA App Polishes Up PayBill Management, and You Can Now Natively Request for Cash
The new MPESA app seem to be picking new features fast.
Already, the app is one of the best-looking utility products ever made by the...
M-PESA Beats Parent Company as Kenya’s Top Superbrand
Safaricom’s M-PESA has been named as Kenya’s top superbrand.
The mobile money product was also ahead of its parent company, Safaricom, in the last survey.
Safaricom...
Safaricom is Testing a Standalone M-PESA App
Safaricom appears to be developing an M-PESA app following the publication of a similarly named app in Google Play Store.
The app, which has been...
CBK Stops Free Under KES 1000 Mobile Money Transfers
The COVID-19 pandemic saw the government, among other Kenya financial institutions introduce measures to cushion Kenyans from the financial pangs of the pandemic.
The...
Safaricom Signals Reducing M-PESA Transaction Fees
Telco Safaricom is reportedly considering reducing -PESA transaction charges in a plan that will see the operator retain high business volumes.
This development, first highlighted...
Safaricom M-PESA Profits Decline for the First Time
Safaricom has revealed its HY results ended in 30 September 2020 for the 2020/2021 financial year.
In a livestream showcased on its YouTube channel and...
M-PESA Beats the Competition With Near 99% Market Share once Again
Mobile money services have been on an upward trend; but is every player making a killing from it?
The answer is no, because, as you...
Likoni Ferry Customers to Pay for Services Via M-PESA
We have been seeing passengers pay fare using M-PESA services.
The cashless payments have been around for a long time. However, they haven’t been popular...
Safaricom Has Another Service Maintenance Exercise Slated for Tonight
The interruption starts on Saturday 12th September 2020 at 2300 hrs to Sunday 13th September 2020 0500 hrs.
M-PESA Stays True to Its Maintenance Binge With a Planned 12-Hour Interruption
You guessed it, and we are not going to waste your time today.
Tomorrow, you will not be able to access M-PESA services because the...
Here is An Ingenious Way of Sending More Than KES 1000 Without Splitting Transactions
The COVID-19 pandemic has been a disaster to many people, communities and businesses, and countries as a whole. Kenya, in particular, has been hit,...
M-PESA is On a Maintenance Spree With Another Interruption Slated for Tonight
Safaricom has been honing the offerings of M-PESA with constant maintenance announcements.
We started receiving the communication about a fortnight or so ago, and if...
Safaricom Wants to Cap KES 1000 Free M-PESA Transfers to 5 Attempts But Loses Hearing
The Coronavirus pandemic has brought with it vast financial constraints for Kenyans and companies. To this end, the Central Bank of Kenya made a...
Safaricom Schedules Yet Another M-PESA Service Interruption
For the last couple of weeks, Safaricom has been trying to improve the offerings of M-PESA with system maintenance and upgrades. These enhancements are...
M-PESA is Nearing 99 Percent Market Share as T-Kash, Airtel Money Dwindle
Mobile money services are a success in Kenya owing to the work done by operators, mainly Safaricom. The service, and its associated products are...
Safaricom Reiterates Pursuing Ethiopia Entry Following Tough Mobile Money Regulations
A couple of weeks ago, Ethiopia announced that it has opened the floor for mobile money for telcos.
The development means that new participants, including...
Ethiopia Opens Floor for Mobile Money for Telcos, Kills M-PESA Launch Prospects
As of April 2020, Ethiopia has allowed new players to take part in the mobile space. New entrants, in this case, are non-financial organizations...
Once Again, M-PESA Cannibalizes T-Kash and Airtel Money with 98.8 Percent Market Share
The latest numbers from the Communications Authority of Kenya (CA) in terms of mobile money use cases are here, and they reiterate what we...
Safaricom Kes 1000 M-PESA Waiver Accidently Skips Business Accounts, Fix is Incoming
A few days ago, the CBK directed mobile operators and financial institutions to adjust their mobile money products to cushion the adverse effects of...
mySafaricom App is Temporarily Forcing Customers to Use Mobile Data for Valid Reasons
As of last week, Safaricom customers realized that the mySafaricom app was forcing them to use mobile data even after setting it up previously....
City Star Shuttle Passengers to Pay Fare Via M-PESA in New Partnership with Safaricom
COVID-19 cases keep escalating, and the government of Kenya, among other key institutions, most of which are healthcare and internet companies, have been at...
Telkom Kenya Makes it Even Easier to Top-up From M-PESA With New Menu
Mobile data wars have always been a norm in Kenya, and for the most part, consumers benefit from the tussles because operators are tasked...
What We Know About Safaricom’s 0722000000 Con Game, and What the Operator is Doing About It
Alright. People have been subjected to a new con game where fraudsters use Safaricom’s 072200000 line to reach out to customers, and lie about...
Kenyans Spend Trillions Buying Goods and Services Online Amid a Challenging E-Commerce Space
The growth of e-commerce services in Kenya, while not necessarily returning profits to vendors, is something most people can see. In spite of the...
Why a Possible Fuliza Interest Reduction is Misleading for Safaricom Customers
Safaricom announced unaudited financial results for the six months ended September 30, 2019. The numbers were impressive after the carrier made a killing from...
Recent Interest Hike Erodes KCB M-PESA Customer Loyalty
Mobile loans and mobile loans apps have been making a killing in the Kenyan over the last couple of years. Their growth has been...
Safaricom Becomes Eliud Kipchoge’s Ambassador in Successful Historic Fete
Early this week, Safaricom had begun teasing about its new logo for its mobile money service, M-PESA which currently has over 26 million users...
Safaricom Rebrands M-PESA, Offers Customers Free YouTube Access to Support Eliud Kipchoge’s Race
Safaricom started teasing a new M-PESA logo a couple of days ago. the day is finally here, and Kenya’s largest telco, and arguably one...
Safaricom Pumps KES 407 Million Into M-PESA Global Expansion Strategy
In November 2018, telco Safaricom launched M-PESA Global. The product was an expansion of the carrier’s financial services to other countries. It allows users...
