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- Duco offers automated reconciliation to Mama Money
- Ghana saves $1 million monthly after establishing a Telecos Common Platform
- Kenyan mobile money transactions up 10.5 percent
- NIGERIA : As Telcos Jostle for Mobile Money Space
- NIGERIA: PalmPay hits 100,000 subscribers, 1m transactions
- ZIMBABWE: 2% transactional tax stays
- SOUTHERN AFRICA: Proposed regional mobile money transfer initiative
- Nigeria: MTN Launches Mobile Money Transaction Service in Kano
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Emmanuel Okoegwaleemmanuel@mobilemoneyafrica.comIn many Countries in Sub-Sahara Africa, subsistence agriculture is a major contributor to the nat...
Bamidele FamoofoNigeria is an untapped market for mobile money with significant revenue potential. The telcos operating in the country have, ther...
PalmPay, a mobile payment start-up in Nigeria has reached 100,000 subscribers with over million transactions recorded in in just two months. The...
By Ibrahim ShuaibuKano — A new service for transfer of funds approved by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) called Mobile Money transaction (MoMo)...
Obinna Chima and Emma OkonjiChief Executive Officers (CEOs) of commercial banks have distanced themselves from the moves by MTN Nigeria to impose...
The Governor of Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Mr. Godwin Emefiele, yesterday directed commercial banks and other financial institutions under it...
Ghana has saved US$1.1 million monthly after mounting a Common Platform to monitor the activities of the telecommunications sector, Mrs Ursula Ow...
Regulation in any economy is one of the important first steps necessary to strengthen competition, especially where complex products are concerne...
Stephen Nyuur is a businessman who operates his provision shop at Achimota Mile 7, a suburb of Accra.He deals in general merchandise and has seve...
By Cliff EkufulThe Minister of Communication, Mrs Ursula Owusu-Ekuful has announced that with effect from January 1, 2020, all mobile phone users...
Ghana continues to roll out initiatives that provide Ghanaians with secure and convenient digital financial services aimed at including the finan...
Western Union, a leader in cross-border- cross-currency money movement and MTN, a leading provider of telecommunications services in Africa and t...
Kenya’s mobile money transactions surged 10.5 percent in the first nine months of this year as compared to a similar period in 2018, with citizen...
Dalsan Radio (Mogadishu)The Somali Cash Consortium, led by Concern Worldwide, has distributed emergency funding to over 7,000 displaced people wh...
ACCESS to formal financial services for the motorcycle transport operators commonly known as 'Bodaboda' that will ultimately push up financial in...
By Padili MikomangwaTanzania's smartphone's network--Airtel Tanzania, has ushered a new mobile money service branded "Send With a withdraw fee",...
By Max Patrick OcaidoDespite a huge growth in number of mobile money transactions, which increased by 87% from 1.35 billion in FY 2017/18 to 2.51...
By James KariukiBank debit and credit card transactions hit Sh399 billion between January and August, representing a 25 percent upward swing.This...
Tarek Fayed, Chairperson and CEO of Banque du Caire, said the bank is keen to provide the best financial products and diversified banking service...
Blom Bank Egypt launched a contactless payment service via credit and debit cards in light of its continuous development and modernisation of its...
JULIUS BARIGABAIn a country without a well-developed financial infrastructure—where mobile phone airtime has often been used as some form of curr...
Francis MuliSouth Sudan has launched its first mobile phone-based money transfer service, m-Gurush.m-Gurush is a short form for mobile-Gurus...
Telecom Egypt and Banque Misr have signed a cooperation agreement in preparation for the launch of WE mobile wallet.The new service will enable c...
In Morocco, the mobile operator Inwi announced it is launching its Mobile Money service Wana Money by next September.Information was disclosed by...
Gason Mukuvadzi, a lanky man with boyish looks, sits behind a makeshift desk in Mbare’s Mupedzanhamo centre. An umbrella canvas shelters him from...
Duco, the global leader of cloud-based enterprise data integrity and next-generation reconciliation services today announced that Mama Money...
GOVERNMENT will continue collecting the 2% transactional tax which it introduced in October last year despite a continued howls of disapproval fr...
Sinikiwe MarodzaHarare - Regional economic analysts have hailed the SADC payment scheme management body for working on a project to introduce a m...
Mobile money and other digital finance platforms might have proven to be highly useful in Zimbabwe, but they have also become major drivers...
Leading Fintech Company, Senditoo has entered the digital money transfer space with an attractive £5 first time transfer discount, making it easi...
Across the country, over 350,000 postmen are offering doorstep financial services to people in even the remotest parts of India.They are equipped...
E-commerce transactions in the UAE are forecast to total $16 billion (Dh59bn) in 2019 and grow 23 per cent annually between 2018 and 2022, accord...
CABIM Ltd, the parent company of Crown Agents Bank has announced that it has received all required regulatory approvals, to finalise its acquisit...
Business customers will have access to Western Union’s innovative WU® EDGE platform.Post Office Expands Cross-Border Financial Services Offering...
Mastercard has announced the completion of the acquisition of Transfast, a global payments company with significant cross-border network rea...
7-Eleven Japan recently launched a mobile payments feature on its 7Pay app which enabled customers to simply scan a barcode in the app and charge...
