Tag: M-Pesa

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 ...

Absa Group is bringing in new blood at the executive level, hiring Sitoyo Lopokoiyit from Safaricom's M-PESA to run its ...

Twitter (or what the cool kids call "X") is not just a playground for keyboard warriors. Sometimes you get some ...

M-Shwari just overhauled how it tracks and recovers loans by implementing a system where your debt follows your National ID, ...

The Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA) has intensified its efforts to broaden the tax base, and this time it's targeting unexplained ...

Safaricom is launching Shiriki Pay, a new M-PESA feature that lets you give another person direct access to spend money ...

In a decision that resonates with how Kenya actually conducts business, the High Court just made it clear on an ...

Buying airtime for someone on a different mobile network in Kenya has always been unnecessarily expensive. If you're on Safaricom ...

The Kenyan government is in the final stages of selling 15% of its stake in Safaricom to South Africa's Vodacom ...

Starting next month, buying shares on the Nairobi Securities Exchange (NSE) will work the same way you pay for electricity ...

Safaricom's M-Pesa Ethiopia launched a new app called M-Pesa Lehulum on December 1 that works across any mobile network. Days ...

Vodafone is buying more control of Kenya's biggest telco, and the government needs the money. In what is shaping up ...

Safaricom has officially launched Daraja 3.0, a comprehensive overhaul of its M-PESA API platform. According to the announcement, the launch ...

Fuliza recorded a 34.9% revenue rebound in the 2025/26 financial year, according to Safaricom Group’s half-year financial report. Revenue from ...

Safaricom Telecommunications Ethiopia (STE) experienced a 64.3% decline in M-PESA revenue between September 2024 and November 2025. Last year, when ...

Kenya’s mobile money sector has reached a major milestone, with the latest Communications Authority (CA) data showing 47.7 million active ...

If you will be up and about tonight, it is wise to have some cash on you in your actual ...

Safaricom has upgraded its M-PESA platform with a new core system called Fintech 2.0, the first major change since 2015, ...

For those looking to stash away money for at least a year, the KCB M-Pesa Fixed Savings Account provides a ...

Kenyan PayPal users were treated to good news last week regarding Safaricom's new update on the M-PESA app, bringing the ...

From 2025, Safaricom now provides digitally stamped M‑PESA statements (also known as e‑stamped M-PESA statement) that are official, secure, and ...

The process of how to send money across East Africa was a tedious one before mobile money crossed borders. Now, ...

If you've ever tried to register a new Safaricom SIM card in the evening, you've likely encountered an unexpected hurdle. ...