Tag: Safaricom

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

In a ruling that lands squarely in the age of mobile money and digital accounts, the High Court sitting at ...

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

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 ...

If you've ever winced at your airtime balance after a quick call to someone on a different network, there's good ...

Progress doesn't happen on its own. Behind every thriving business in Kenya, from the mandazi vendor who now accepts M-PESA ...

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, ...

Safaricom has announced an interim dividend of KES 0.85 per share for the financial year ending March 31, 2026, following ...

Digital resilience used to mean having a reliable internet connection. Today, that’s no longer enough. Businesses operate across cloud platforms, ...

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

Residents in Busia District, Uganda, are walking across the border into Kenya just to access their own cash after the ...

Safaricom CEO Peter Ndegwa spent Monday trying to convince MPs that the telecom giant isn't about to become less Kenyan ...

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 ...

The Communications Authority of Kenya just released its 2024/25 customer satisfaction report, and the numbers tell a story that millions ...

Across Kenya’s industrial, logistics, and service sectors, a quiet transformation is taking place, powered not just by machines but by ...

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 cut the data allocation in several of its popular mobile bundles by more than 50%, effectively doubling what ...

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

South African company Vodacom Group has indicated that it is ready to acquire a larger share in Safaricom once the ...

Safaricom has secured regulatory approval to raise up to KES 40 billion through a new bond program, marking one of ...

Kenya is facing a major public debate after a new draft regulation by the Communications Authority (CA) proposed that network ...

Safaricom has reported a drop in cybersecurity incidents affecting its business customers. The number of cases has fallen by nearly ...

In today’s digital-first world, a company’s growth is no longer defined by how many branches it has or how big ...

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 ...

Telegram Messenger is reportedly being blocked on Safaricom network in Kenya, leaving millions of users still unable to access one ...

A hacking group called Kazu says it has stolen over 17 million files containing medical and personal records from M-Tiba, ...

Meta has signed a deal with Safaricom to bring its second submarine cable to Kenya. The new undersea system will ...