As part of the ongoing separation of Airtel Africa’s mobile money business from the parent telecommunications company, Airtel Kenya’s division has become the latest to...
In Europe, open banking is associated with a wave of open application programming interfaces (APIs) rolled out by banks that allow authorized third parties to...
The public comments on a U.S. central bank digital currency (CBDC) are running overwhelmingly against a digital dollar, according to a libertarian think tank analyst....
In discussions of super apps, a handful of Asian mobile apps such as AliPay, Gojek, Grab and WeChat are often cited as notable examples. Meanwhile,...
African money transfer service M-Pesa has debuted bill pay interoperability that lets Airtel and Telkom customers make mobile money payments directly into Safaricom’s M-PESA Pay...
“M-Pesa is a barometer of what’s happening in the [Kenyan] economy and how customers are behaving.” That description by Peter Ndegwa, CEO at Nairobi-based tech...
In today’s top stories from Europe, the Middle East and Africa, German digital bank N26 works with Stripe to expand its account top-up options. Also,...
African money transfer service M-Pesa will be teaming with Visa on a virtual payment card service that will try to tap into the subscriptions market...
If anyone has the knowledge and experience to speak confidently about the ups and downs of Africa’s technology and payments ecosystem, it’s 30-year-old serial entrepreneur...