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...
Welcome to The Axis, your late look at payments news from around the world. Coverage includes WorldRemit’s partnership with Safaricom for money transfers to mobile money...
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...
It looks like Safaricom will survive as a single business — Kenya’s telecom regulator has reportedly backed off a plan that would have seen the...
Millions more smartphone users in Africa will now have access to basic banking services like borrowing and saving as the popular mobile financial service platform...
Safaricom, the mobile provider in Kenya, is partnering with mSurvey, the data collection company, to provide customers with a Consumer Wallet that maps out the...