Tag: m-pesa
M-PESA Has 98.5 Percent Mobile Money Subscriptions in Kenya, So Why Do The Rest Even Try to Compete?
Data about mobile money services has been released by the ICT regulator the Communications Authority of Kenya (CA) for the first quarter of the...
Mobile Loan Defaults See A Drop in Mobile Money Subscriptions
Sector stats for Kenya’s telecoms space have been released by the Communications Authority of Kenya (CA).
These are numbers for the first quarter of the...
Safaricom to Move Drought Funds via M-PESA for Free
Telco Safaricom has today revealed a new collaboration with the Kenya government to facilitate free mobile money transfer to drought-stricken households in 23 Arid...
Safaricom to Give 16 Isuzu DMAX Trucks to Pochi La Biashara and Lipa Na M-PESA Business Owners in New...
Telco Safaricom has announced the start of a promotion that will see business owners who use the company’s Lipa Na M-PESA and Pochi La...
All M-PESA Services Will Be Offline for Four Hours on Sunday
2021 has seen Safaricom conduct a lot of fixes for its services.
So far, we can count up to 10 interruptions that have affected its...
All M-PESA Services Will Be Offline for Four Hours from Tomorrow Midnight
Safaricom has announced that M-PESA services will be unavailable from tomorrow midnight to the early morning of Wednesday, 20th October.
The interruption will see the...
NCBA and KCB To Use Respective Accounts, Including Mshwari and KCB M-PESA to Clear Fuliza Owed
Fuliza has been around for nearly three years now.
The overdraft facility helps Safaricom M-PESA customers complete payments or send cash to another person if...
All M-PESA Services Will Be Unavailable Tonight
Safaricom will be conducting a maintenance exercise on its mobile money product M-PESA today, Tuesday 21 to the early hours of Wednesday 22 Sept.
The...
You Can Give Reason for M-PESA Reversal Request in the M-PESA App
It has since become very clear that M-PESA is Safaricom’s leading money-maker. The mobile money product has been improved and imparted with many other...
How to Claim M-PESA and M-Shwari Funds of Your Deceased Relatives
Eventually, all of us are going to die, and when that happens, we might need to keep our houses in order.
In this case, many...
Safaricom’s M-PESA Now Has 50 Million Active Customers
Safaricom’s M-PESA has announced that it has reached 50 million active users in Africa.
By sheer numbers, this makes it the most popular mobile money...
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...
