Since the rise of M-Pesa in 2007, mobile money wallets have become prevalent across Africa. And while that addition to the market has made many...
Kenya’s Safaricom has announced that it is partnering with Vodacom to acquire the intellectual property rights to the M-Pesa mobile financial services platform. Last year...
Welcome to The Axis, your late look at payments news from around the world. Coverage includes the rollout of a mini-program for mobile food ordering...
Western Union and M-PESA announce today a global P2P partnership that will make it easier for M-PESA customers to send money outside of Kenya and...
Kenya’s biggest mobile phone operator, Safaricom, is against a proposed tax rise on mobile phone-based cash transfers. In a budget speech last week, the country’s Finance...
Kenya’s Safaricom has launched a new Bonga platform, which is described as a “conversational and transactional social network.” The move will also leverage its M-Pesa...
PayPal and Safaricom announced a new collaboration that will enable people living in Kenya to move money between their M-PESA and PayPal accounts. In a press...
To allow users to make payments in a country where many people don’t have access to credit cards, Google Play has begun accepting payments through mobile...
More than half the world’s mobile money deployments are coming from a perhaps unexpected source: Sub-Saharan Africa. Yet in a way, that balance makes sense....