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Mastercard and Safaricom Team on Cross-Border Payments in Kenya
Mastercard and Safaricom Team on Cross-Border Payments in Kenya
September 19, 2024  |  Partnerships

Mastercard has launched a partnership with East African telecom Safaricom. The collaboration, announced in a news release Thursday (Sept. 19), is designed to boost the...

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Safaricom Launches M-Pesa Mobile Money Service in Ethiopia
Safaricom Launches M-Pesa Mobile Money Service in Ethiopia
August 27, 2023  |  Mobile Wallets

Kenyan telecom Safaricom has brought its mobile money service M-Pesa to Ethiopia. As the Financial Times (FT) reported Saturday (Aug. 26), the service went live in Africa’s second-most populous country...

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TerraPay and Safaricom Team on Cross-Border Payments
TerraPay and Safaricom Team on Cross-Border Payments
July 19, 2023  |  Cross Border Commerce

Payments infrastructure TerraPay has launched a cross-border remittance partnership with Kenyan telecommunications firm Safaricom. The collaboration, announced Wednesday (July 19), will operate through TerraPay’s remittance...

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How Digital Innovation Is Unifying Africa’s Fragmented Payments Landscape
How Digital Innovation Is Unifying Africa’s Fragmented Payments Landscape
July 06, 2023  |  Digital Payments

In 2019, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said it was time to simplify money movement and make sending money to someone as easy as sending a...

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Is M-Pesa Missing Link to Accelerating Kenya’s Real-Time Payments Adoption?
Is M-Pesa Missing Link to Accelerating Kenya’s Real-Time Payments Adoption?
May 05, 2023  |  Real-Time Payments

Kenya is known as the home of mobile payment system M-Pesa, and it is also one of the few African countries to have made significant...

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Safaricom Launches Mobile Wallet and Mini App for Kenyan Students
Safaricom Launches Mobile Wallet and Mini App for Kenyan Students
April 28, 2023  |  Loans

Safaricom and Kenya’s Higher Education Loans Board (HELB) have partnered on a mobile wallet and a mini app. The new HELB Mobile Wallet will allow...

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Mobile Money-Telecom Decoupling to Bolster Interoperability, Benefit Africa’s PSPs
Mobile Money-Telecom Decoupling to Bolster Interoperability, Benefit Africa’s PSPs
October 24, 2022  |  Mobile Wallets

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...

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How Telco APIs Are Enhancing Africa’s Mobile Money Ecosystem
How Telco APIs Are Enhancing Africa’s Mobile Money Ecosystem
September 08, 2022  |  API

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...

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M-Pesa Debuts Bill Pay Tool for Airtel, Telkom Customers
M-Pesa Debuts Bill Pay Tool for Airtel, Telkom Customers
July 15, 2022  |  Mobile Payments

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...

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