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Uganda's President Museveni attends his swearing-in ceremony at the Independance grounds in Uganda's capital Kampala

Ugandans to Start Paying Tax for Social Media and Mobile Money Usage

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At the beginning of April, Uganda's president, Yoweri Museveni stated that he would tax social media usage in the country, apparently, since they are...
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Uganda Telcos Slash Agents Commission on Mobile Money and Airtime Transactions

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In a move that might only be labelled as crazy, Ugandan telcos have been reported to cut the commission that mobile money agents earn...
OPay iPay

Opera Banks On iPay Africa Acquisition to Strengthen Play at Mobile Money

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Back in December 2017, Opera Software Group officially took the wraps off OPay, a web-based payments platform. The service would allow users to purchase...
Mobile Money Interoperability

Seamless Mobile Money Transactions Between Airtel and Safaricom to Begin Next Week

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In January, Safaricom and Airtel announced that they were testing mobile money interoperability among their staff. This meant that M-Pesa users who receive money...
T Kash Launch

Telkom Kenya’s Anticipated Mobile Money Service T-kash Goes Live with T-kash Codes and Much More

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Telkom Kenya has finally launched T-Kash mobile money service, built from the ground up for the last several months.
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Telkom Kenya’s Mobile Money Service is Imminent as the CBK Finalizes Approval

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Telkom Kenya rebranded from Orange Kenya after a series of activities involving its management, which include it being acquired by a private equity firm,...
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Kenyans to Send and Receive Mobile Money Across Networks as Interoperability Pilot Kicks Off

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Back in May 2017, we reported that mobile money interoperability would be available to consumers within three months but that did not happen. Months...
Mobile money

Kenya’s Mobile Money Payments on the Rise as Card Transactions Get Less Popular

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Kenya’s uptake of mobile money services and its associated transactions continue to see a healthy growth thanks to new data that has been made...
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Kenyan Advertisers May Soon Pay for Facebook Ads Via Mobile Money Solutions

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Facebook-sponsored TechCrunch Startup Battlefield is one of the key events that are gracing Nairobi for the better part of the week. Specifically, the event...
Mobile money

Jamii Telecommunication Limited (JTL) May Take On Mobile Money Transfers With Faiba Money

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

Orange Money is No More, Telkom Kenya’s New Mobile Money Solution Imminent

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As of midnight today, July 4, Telkom Kenya will pull a plug on its mobile phone-based money transfer solution, Orange Money. Shutting down Orange...
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Mastercard and Western Union Exploring Mobile and Digital Payments in Kenya’s Kakuma Refugee Camp

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Following the realization that refugees can be emerging economies in their own right, Western Union and Mastercard have come together to turn refugee communities...
BRANCH APP

Mobile Money Solutions for Loans Still Soaring as Branch Reports a 15% Monthly Bump Since Launch

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Branch, a Facebook-linked app that allows its users to score small loans through Safaricom’s mobile payment solution, M-Pesa has reported a 15% monthly growth. The...
mobile money

Cross-Network Mobile Money Transfer Could Reach Kenyans Sooner Than we Thought

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Mobile money interoperability in Kenya is coming in the next three months. According to Business Daily, an agreement was reached on Thursday (4th May,...
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Bitwala’s New Product Involves Sending Bitcoins To MPESA For Free

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

Facebook’s Ime Archibong Sees Massive Opportunity Working with Kenyan Developers

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There is a massive opportunity for developers
Mpesa Agency

Opinion: Kenya’s Privacy of Electronic Money at Risk

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

New Solution Simplifies Mobile Money Payments for Airline Tickets

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Mobile Money solutions across the African continent have allowed for faster financial inclusion. The success of M-Pesa which launched in Kenya in 2007 has...

Tanzania’s 10% tax on Mobile Money Transactions Criticized

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

Kenyans transacted 122 Million times via Mobile Money in transactions worth 290 Billion

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

Inappropriate Service Pricing and Marketing Hampering Mobile Money Growth

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Mobile money services continue to grow world over with providers benefiting from the boom with revenues projected at 2 billion dollars in Kenya and...
Safariccom M-ledger app

Safaricom’s New Acquisition M-Ledger App Covers Large Gap In Personal Payments Reconciliation

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Safaricom on Wednesday launched an app that will assist in tracking mobile money transactions on an easy to use user interface for Mpesa. The...
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Kenyan MVNO Equitel Now Has 100,000 Subscribers

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

The Pros and Cons of Digital Wallets

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

50% of Point-Of-Sale Payments Globally will Be Mobile in 2020 – Study

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Mobile has made inroads into almost every aspect of our lives mainly due to penetration and the intimacy of the mobile phone. ABI Research...
Airtime Reverse Mpesa

Safaricom Introduces Service To Reverse Airtime To Mpesa

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

Kenya Leads in Mobile Money Use Globally with 20 Million Accounts

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Kenya is a global leader in mobile money business holding a third of the world's 61 million mobile phone-based money accounts, the GSM Association...
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Southern and Eastern African Central Bank Officials Discuss the Mobile Financial Services Business and its Regulation

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Mobile solutions are playing a critical role in the access of financial services in Africa. The rapid growth of mobile financial services raises issues...
Mobile East Africa 2014

Mobile East Africa 2014: State of the Mobile Market in Kenya

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

GSMA: Sub-Saharan Africa Leads World in Mobile Growth

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

Phones Are the New Banks: Mobile Payments in Africa and Beyond

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Though it’s a trend that’s now spreading across the globe, the rise of mobile payments can be directly traced back to Africa. It’s an...
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NFC Card driven business in Kenya suffers from the curse that is mobility

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One would assume that in a market where everything good is happening in the mobile industry, new products by large multinational companies would go...
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Orange money to be available at Total Petrol stations across 13 countries

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Mobile is still the fastest growth frontier in today's world, and mobile money takes the lead among value adds that the mobile phone brings....
Orange mobile to mobile money

Orange goes cross-border in mobile-to-mobile money transfers in West Africa

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Mali, Senegal and Cote d'Ivoire will be having a first from Orange, international money transfer, mobile on mobile. The product named "Orange Money International...

MasterCard, Etisalat and EBC Bring Mobile Money To Egypt

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Flous is a mobile money product created from the partnership between MasterCard, National Bank of Egypt and Etisalat. The payment gateway will serve a...

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