Tag: Mobile Money

Sports betting is not a new activity in the country. It began local operations way back in the 1960s when ...

    It has since been revealed that Airtel Africa is prepping a listing in the London Stock Exchange, which ...

Today, Facebook announced Libra which is their new cryptocurrency platform which will be governed by the Libra Association. However, they also announced ...

The Communications Authority of Kenya’s sector statistics report for the first quarter of 2018/2019 was released earlier today. Among the ...

On December 8, Safaricom’s M-PESA services were subject to an outage that lasted for a couple of hours. The loss ...

Kenya’s telecoms operators are not the only services that have pursued mobile money interoperability. The development, which went live a ...

M-Pesa is one of Kenya's biggest achievements and a success story of how the service revolutionized money transfer and financial ...

Safaricom has today announced a partnership between the telco and financial services company, Western Union. This partnership will allow Western Union ...

Kenya’s ICT watchdog the Communications Authority (CA) released sector statistics for the fourth quarter of the financial year 2017/2018. As ...

The other day, we learned that the Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA) was planning to hone it tax-collecting practices by digging ...

The legal framework that governs the boundaries of the Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA) in terms of how far it should ...

Kenya's parliament proposed the postponement of the controversial 16% VAT on petroleum products for two years after a public outcry ...

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 ...

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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 ...