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- MTN to relaunch mobile money service in South Africa
- NIGERIA: MTN Launches Mobile Money Transfer Service
- UGANDA:Over 40% of Mobile Money Subscribers are Inactive
- SADC develops regional mobile money platform
- GHANA: Govt Orders SIM Card Re-Registration From Jan to June 2020
- Kenya: Bank Cards Use Grows 25% in Eight Months
- Software to fix financial interoperability
- KENYA: Bank cards use grows 25pc in eight months
- How banks can keep pace with rapidly shifting tech
- NIGERIA: Softcom introduces mobile banking with phone numbers
Latest Stories
Kemi Olaitan and Raheem AkingboluY’ello Digital Financial Services (YDFS) Limited, a subsidiary of MTN Nigeria, has launched its mobile money tra...
Ife Ogunfuwa Softcom has announced the launch of a payment innovation that leverages the phone numbers of Nigerians to provide financial ser...
With an inbound flow of more than US$ 25 billion migrant remittances, Nigeria is the fifthlargest remittance receiving country worldwide, and the...
By Ifeoluwa AdediranBanks, Mobile Money Operators, Money Transfer Operators (MTOs), virtual currency experts, remittance companies, fintechs, fin...
Despite the harsh business environment and plummeting consumer spending, eTranzact International Plc., Nigeria’s leading electronic and mobile pa...
Abandoned offices of the Nigerian Postal Service (NIPOST) spread across the 774 local government areas in Nigeria will henceforth serve as microf...
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...
MTN and Ericsson have extended their Mobile Money partnership by launching an open API platform in Ghana to give entrepreneurs an opportunity to...
The Bank of Ghana has pegged the minimum capital required for operating a mobile money company at GH¢20 million.The latest directive comes on the...
Management of MTN Mobile Money says it has no intention of shutting down the service, contrary to social media speculations.In a statement in res...
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...
Mojaloop, a financial inclusion platform developed by ModusBox with funding from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, has entered the Ugandan m...
JAMES KARIUKIBank debit and credit card transactions hit Sh399 billion between January and August, representing a 25 percent upward swing.This is...
Kenyan banks are facing a complicated future with the entry of financial technology and an increasingly diversified customer base spoilt for choi...
Project Management Institute (PMI) has recognised Safaricom’s m-pesa as one of the top 10 most influential finance projects of the last 50 years...
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...
MTN will launch a new mobile money service before the end of the quarter says MTN South Africa CEO Godfrey Motsa.Speaking at the 2019 MyBroadBand...
Tawanda Musarurwa Senior ReporterThe Southern African Development Community (Sadc) region is working to introduce a mobile money transfer system...
Consumers Association of Malawi (CAMA) has hailed Malawi Government for its decision to withdraw the proposed one percent withholding tax on non-...
NETONE’S mobile money transfer service, OneMoney has grown by 97 percent in the three months ending September 30, 2019, driven by unique offering...
ESHA CHHABRA and BIDISHA DASTHANKS TO mobile money, any person with a basic phone can now make cash transfers, pay bills, and send money to famil...
Southern Times WriterHarare - On 30 September, the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe issued a national payments system directive that banned the function...
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...
