Tag: Mobile Money

Safaricom’s utility app mySafaricom has received a minor update today. The tool, which has been around for some time now, ...

The latest stats by the Communication Authority of Kenya reveal that as much as active mobile money subscriptions have taken ...

With the growth of mobile money services in Kenya and around a few African countries it is only natural for ...

A typical Kenyan day involves at least one instance where you will leave your phone number either at a security desk ...

Safaricom has launched a promotion dubbed “Maisha Ni M-PESA Tu” that is aimed at rewarding Safaricom subscribers who use the company's ...

At the beginning of April, Uganda's president, Yoweri Museveni stated that he would tax social media usage in the country, ...

In a move that might only be labelled as crazy, Ugandan telcos have been reported to cut the commission that ...

Back in December 2017, Opera Software Group officially took the wraps off OPay, a web-based payments platform. The service would ...

In January, Safaricom and Airtel announced that they were testing mobile money interoperability among their staff. This meant that M-Pesa ...

Telkom Kenya has finally launched T-Kash mobile money service, built from the ground up for the last several months.

Telkom Kenya rebranded from Orange Kenya after a series of activities involving its management, which include it being acquired by ...

Back in May 2017, we reported that mobile money interoperability would be available to consumers within three months but that ...

Kenya’s uptake of mobile money services and its associated transactions continue to see a healthy growth thanks to new data ...

Facebook-sponsored TechCrunch Startup Battlefield is one of the key events that are gracing Nairobi for the better part of the ...

Mobile money transfer services are uniquely Kenyan, and the solution is almost synonymous to Safaricom’s M-PESA amidst other players such ...

As of midnight today, July 4, Telkom Kenya will pull a plug on its mobile phone-based money transfer solution, Orange ...

Following the realization that refugees can be emerging economies in their own right, Western Union and Mastercard have come together ...

Branch, a Facebook-linked app that allows its users to score small loans through Safaricom’s mobile payment solution, M-Pesa has reported ...

Mobile money interoperability in Kenya is coming in the next three months. According to Business Daily, an agreement was reached ...

The mobile money revolution in Africa has made people send money across geographical borders. It is one of the best ...

There is a massive opportunity for developers

What is the suitable level of privacy and what counts as a private transaction? Are we automatically granting unfettered access ...

Mobile Money solutions across the African continent have allowed for faster financial inclusion. The success of M-Pesa which launched in ...

The move to impose a 10% tax has been criticized as counterproductive and likely to hurt the poor and rural ...

The Communication Authority of Kenya released the Q1 2016 statistics report for the period between July and September 2015 on the ...

Mobile money services continue to grow world over with providers benefiting from the boom with revenues projected at 2 billion ...

Safaricom on Wednesday launched an app that will assist in tracking mobile money transactions on an easy to use user ...

IMG Courtesy Infotake.co.keKenya recently opened up the market by legislation to Mobile Virtual Network Operators (MVNOs), basically meaning a mobile ...

As more people adopt a digital wallet purchasing method, you might wonder if it's something you should do too. Is ...

Mobile has made inroads into almost every aspect of our lives mainly due to penetration and the intimacy of the ...

Probably one of the most requested service, Airtime to Mpesa reversal has been quite a pain in the ass, particularly ...

Kenya is a global leader in mobile money business holding a third of the world's 61 million mobile phone-based money ...

Mobile solutions are playing a critical role in the access of financial services in Africa. The rapid growth of mobile ...

Stylized as #MEA2014, Mobile East Africa attracts stakeholders in the African mobile space. The gathering is part of circuit of ...

Sub-Saharan Africa has experienced a significant impact from the region's mobile industry. A study by GMSA shows that the region's ...