Tag: M-Pesa

Safaricom shareholders just approved the biggest dividend in the company's history. At today's Annual General Meeting, they signed off on ...

Thousands of Kenyans woke up today to a second inconvenience layered on top of Wednesday night's blackout, which knocked out ...

X has finally turned its long-promised payments feature into a real product. On July 27, 2026, X Money went live ...

Anne Kinuthia-Otieno has left her job as managing director of Airtel Money Kenya, ending a run of nearly five years ...

Sending money from one bank to another in Kenya is about to get a lot cheaper for a lot more ...

Esther Waititu is stepping down as Safaricom's Chief Financial Services Officer, with her last day set for July 31, 2026. ...

An attempt by Airtel Kenya to get regulators to stop Safaricom's low call prices has failed. The Competition Authority of ...

Safaricom's FY26 results confirm what many Kenyan traders already know from experience. Pochi La Biashara has grown from a simple ...

Kenya’s growth in mobile money penetration has led to more mobile money agents, with the number of mobile agents growing ...

Budget day has arrived, and there are two proposals to look out for that matter most to anyone who owns ...

Imagine you loaded money onto your phone, went through the M-Pesa prompt, confirmed the transaction, and got a token from ...

As an Airtel user, you do not need to look for a physical airtime scratch card to top up. You ...

Kenya’s biggest mobile money platform, M-Pesa, is set to increase its transaction charges if Kenyan Members of Parliament (MPs) approve ...

Safaricom has updated My OneApp to stay logged in even when users switch to Airtel Kenya or other non-Safaricom networks. ...

When Safaricom waived charges on small M-PESA transactions during COVID-19, the intent was partly practical: get money moving when people ...

Treasury wants to slap a 16% VAT on the country's 42 licensed payment service providers, a list that includes M-Pesa, ...

The Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA) has moved to calm nerves over its mobile money monitoring plans, making clear that it ...

In the past 7 years, the average amount Kenyans borrow from Fuliza has decreased by KES 404.8, which represents a ...

The number of Kenyans needing card-based international payments is growing. This is evidenced by 62.1% growth in M-Pesa Visa card ...

The audited results of Safaricom for the financial year ended March 31, 2026, show a company firing on most cylinders ...

Safaricom has issued a public apology today for the troubled rollout of My OneApp, acknowledging that a significant number of ...

Safaricom launched My OneApp with a simple pitch: to stop making people juggle two apps. The old M-PESA app handled ...

Kenya closed out 2025 with its digital economy accelerating at pace, based on new data from the Communications Authority of ...

At the end of December 2025, Kenya had 78.3 million mobile phones connected to its networks. Of those, 48,726,982 were ...

By the end of December 2025, Kenya had 51,356,425 mobile money subscriptions. That represents a 5.6% increase from the 48,630,797 ...

Every year when Kenya's largest banks release their full-year financial results, they are essentially bringing home their report cards. In ...

The story of M-Pesa is frequently told as a story of genius mobile money design. The reality is more interesting: ...

When reports emerged in early March that Safaricom would begin masking phone numbers in M-PESA transaction notifications, the details were ...

M-Pesa customers in Tanzania can now use their Android phones to tap and pay at any Visa-enabled point-of-sale terminal in ...

M-PESA launched on March 6, 2007, as a basic mobile money transfer service built by Safaricom. 19 years later, Safaricom ...

As every M-Pesa user has become accustomed to, paying at a till number or through Paybill means the merchant on ...

Kenya's financial system does not look the way it did a decade ago. Paying rent, settling utility bills, and even ...

Sitoyo Lopokoiyit, who serves as Managing Director of M-PESA Africa and Chief Financial Services Officer at Safaricom, was recently appointed ...

Social Health Authority (SHA), a Kenyan state corporation that manages the Social Health Insurance Fund (SHIF), has been deducting contributions ...

Ziidi Trader is a new mini-app inside M-PESA that lets you buy and sell shares on the Nairobi Securities Exchange ...