Tag: Mobile Money

A couple of days ago, we learned that the CBK was in the process of reinstating bank to mobile money ...

At the start of the pandemic back in March 2022, the CBK announced that it had waived fees for sending ...

Over the last couple of quarters, we started noticing that the Communications Authority of Kenya (CA) was reporting less on ...

The GSMA has released its annual ‘State of the Industry Report on Mobile Money’ which in part revealed that mobile ...

A total of Ksh.3.8 trillion was handled by mobile money agents from January up to July of this year in ...

Airtel Africa, which served 14 countries in the continent, has announced the signing of an agreement under which The Rise ...

Card payments is one of the many ways to which people pay for goods and services in Kenya. The Central ...

Back in October 2018, we learnt that KRA had earmarked mobile money transaction data to boost tax revenues. The plan ...

The mobile market in Kenya has registered growth year on year. Thanks to the proliferation of fast 4G network and ...

There has been a mobile loan app boom in the last 5 years in Kenya. A lot of lenders have ...

Mobile money use cases are popular across the country and other parts of Africa. According to data collected by GeoPoll, ...

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 ...