Tag: payments
Visa Eyes Top Payments Spot in Africa with $1B Investment
During the U.S-Africa Business Forum, payments corporation Visa announced a pledge to invest $1 billion in Africa over the next five years to advance...
Fintech Firm Virtual Pay Receives Payments Services License from CBK
Payments firm Virtual Pay International Limited has announced that it has received a Payment Service Provider (PSP) to carry out Payment Gateway Services from the CBK.
This...
After Virtual Card Partnership with M-PESA, Visa Makes More Payments Inroads with Absa Collaboration
Kenyans can now make cross-border remittances following the launch of person-to-person money transfers and persons-to-businesses payments through the VISA network, and Absa Bank Kenya.
The development...
Payments Firm Dash Promises To Integrate 200 Mobile Money Wallets, Eyes Africa-Wide Expansion
Some of you may have seen a budding payments app in your app stores named Dash.
It is a payments app by design, but according...
WhatsApp Launches Peer to Peer Payments in Brazil
Facebook has announced that it has rolled out digital payments to WhatsApp users in Brazil, which will start rolling out today.
This is a very...
[TekIT n’ Go] Chipper Cash Brings Free Cross-Border Payments and Discounted Airtime
Chipper Cash, which currently operates in Kenya, Nigeria, Uganda, Ghana, Rwanda and Tanzania with lots more countries launching in 2020, is a payments app...
PesaPal Introduces New Payments App for Android and iOS
You may have heard of PesaPal, which is a payments company that allows individuals and businesses to make or accept payments.
Today, they have made...
Pesapal Integrates Multiple Payment Channels for Low-Cost Carriers
The popularity of domestic flights has grown significantly over the years, and this development has led a notable increase in the number of low-cost...
Your Guide to Cashless Payments in Singapore
When PM Lee Hsien Loong made his speech during the National Rally Day last year, he touched on the need to switch to cashless...
Online Payments in the Kenyan Context: Challenges and Prospects [Part 1]
This is a continuation to my previous article online payment systems in Kenya.
With E-commerce, it automatically creates a perception that the transaction is mostly...
Secure online payments – 5 things to check before paying online / How to spot a secure site
The world is quickly going online. Most of the businesses I know have an option for online payment, and the ones who don't have...
