Leading telecommunications service provider Safaricom has unveiled a new M-PESA App set to become a game changer in the country’s fintech sector. The new App is part of the company’s new strategy to ...

Recently, we hosted more than 100 current and potential partners to our second M-Pesa Super App Partners' Forum. There was a lot to celebrate, starting with the M-Pesa Super App achieving a ...

With the rise of new technology across the globe, digital disruptions have increased along with challenges such as fraud, ...

Consumer choices of goods and services will be embedded into the M-Pesa app in the new product, Lopokoiyit says. The offer, planned within the next 12 months, will probably be launched first in Kenya ...

Visa just connected to Africa’s most powerful mobile payments network. The global financial services company and Kenyan telecom Safaricom — operator of the M-Pesa mobile money product — announced a ...

Safaricom’s M-Pesa Ethiopia has reported restricted access to its newly launched financial services app, M-Pesa Lehulum, among users of the state-backed telco Ethio Telecom. M-Pesa Ethiopia said ...

Visa and Safaricom launch a virtual card to let M-Pesa users transact over Visa's network. Digital payments are quickly replacing cash in Africa—making the region an attractive destination for digital ...

It seems the demand for Safaricom’s M-Pesa payment product never eases. Since its 2007 launch in Kenya, the fintech app has commanded over 70% of the mobile money market in that country. When COVID-19 ...

Some of the most interesting and dynamic innovations in mobile happen in Africa, South-East Asia, South Asia and the Middle East. This is at odds with the extent of coverage that the US, China and the ...

This content has been selected, created and edited by the Finextra editorial team based upon its relevance and interest to our community. Launched in Kenya on 6 March 2007 - originally as an idea part ...

Everyone says their fintech will change lives. This one did. One of the world's most influential and important fintechs has just passed another milestone. Africa's first mobile payment service, M-Pesa ...