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- Safaricom takes M-Pesa overdraft service global
- MTN Targets 60m Unbanked Nigerians With PSB Licence
- NIGERIA: 3Line to drive financial inclusion with digital thrift savings
- Laundry and Vending Machines Make Change With 100 Million Mobile Transactions
- Tanzania: BoT Reviews Laws to Embrace Digital Platforms
- FSS buys 46% stake in South Africa's Ecentric Payment Systems
- Tanzania: 15 Banks to Use Visa Mobile App
- Safaricom takes M-pesa to China with Alibaba
- Gender Digital Remittance Senders To Ghana Sinks By 30% In 5yrs
- Zimbabwe: Steward Bank Introduce Whatsapp Banking Platform
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CHIKA AKWAJA MTN said it was targeting between 40 million to 60 million addressable unbanked adult population in Nigeria for the implementat...
Nike Popoola3Line Card Management, a fintech company, says it is set to launch ‘SUSUBYU’, a digital saving product modelled on the traditional in...
With over 23 million Nigerians financially excluded, the introduction of TraderMoni by the Federal Government in conjunction with Bank of Industr...
M-Pesa is an electronic wallet service that lets an account holder store, send and receive money on their mobile phone.Speaking further, he said:...
By Emma OkonjiSwift2pay, a bill payment service, has fully commenced business online, providing seamless services to consumers and suppliers. Swi...
Ife OgunfuwaThe use of interbank instant payments on USSD platforms by bank customers received a significant boost in 2018, growing by 35 per cen...
New data reveals that the gender gap for sending digital remittances to Ghana is rapidly closing, basically driven by an increase in internationa...
The Bank of Ghana(BoG) says it is confident that works on the Payment Systems and Services Bill being done by parliament will be completed by the...
Transfer of funds from e-zwich card to mobile money (MoMo) wallet is on a steady rise as the public is making good use of the second phase of mob...
A 7.2% increase in pricing for all mobile money services in Côte d'Ivoire came into effect this Monday, February 25, 2019, learned APA from opera...
Standard Chartered Bank have launched a full Digital Bank on mobile called the Standard Chartered Mobile (SC Mobile) fulfilling the Bank’s determ...
David A. YatesOne of Liberia’s most reliable financial institutions, Ecobank, on Friday, February 15, 2019, signed a partnership agreement with T...
ANNIE NJANJASafaricom has announced plans to take its M-Pesa overdraft service, Fuliza, to seven new African countries as the telco seeks t...
By Bernard LugongoBANK of Tanzania (BoT) said it has been striving to review financial laws to embed new development and dynamics of financial se...
By Rosemary MirondoDar es Salaam — Visa is this week set to launch a mobile app that allows free-of-charge and cross-border transactions.Fifteen...
HELLEN GITHAIGAKenyans buying goods on China's online shopping site AliExpress can now pay for their purchases using M-Pesa, Safaricom said on Tu...
ANNIE NJANJASafaricom’s e-commerce platform Masoko is leveraging its parent firm’s extensive mobile money agent network to beat logistical challe...
LABAN WANAMBISIThe Central Bank of Kenya and the Communications Authority will be required to formulate and publish regulations on mobile m...
Interest in African fintech businesses continues as an Egyptian mobile payment provider changes hands on the private equity market.A majority sta...
The Egyptian Center for Public Opinion Research (Baseera) announced that the value of financial transactions through the electronic payment n...
UAE Exchange announced the launch of its new money transfer mobile app and website in the UAE, multiplying customer convenience with preferenti...
The Central Bank of Egypt approved increasing caps on cash withdrawals and depositing under mobile-phone cash transfer services, head of marketin...
The Middle East region has seen a 22 percent increase in online transactions during 2016, according to data revealed by Payfort, an Amazon comp...
The mobile payments company Fortumo and the mobile operator group Orange are announcing today the launch of direct carrier...
FSS (Financial Software and Systems), a global payments technology company, has announced a strategic investment in Ecentric Payment Systems, a S...
By Kudzanai GeredeSteward bank yesterday launched a Whatsapp banking platform in partnership with Facebook.inc that will allow all banking transa...
EcoCash, Cassava Smartech Zimbabwe's mobile money Fintech business, has partnered with Cassava Fintech South Africa to provide an enhanced cross-...
ANALYSISBy Terence ZimwaraBank service charges or fees make a compelling case for the mass adoption of crypto-currencies, particularly in develop...
Prudence Phiri It wasn’t a moment after Brandina Mulenga ended a phone call with her son that she received an anonymous text message.“I’m re...
MTN has confirmed that it will relaunch its Mobile Money (MoMo) service in South Africa.In the group’s financial results for the year ended Decem...
PayRange Inc., maker of the leading in-app mobile payment service for unattended retail, announces its platform has powered over 100 million mobi...
Ericsson and MTN have signed a five-year mobile money contract extension covering 13 countries in the Middle East and Africa.The deal will see th...
The mobile money industry processed transactions worth $1.3 Billion per day in 2018, with digital transaction values growing at more than twice t...
Sixth Mastercard Digital Payments Study Highlights Social Media Trends Around the Increased Purchasing Power Available In the Palm of Our HandsBA...
Dubai: Mashreq Bank, the UAE’s leading financial institution, has rolled out a service that allows customers to instantly add their cre...
The UPU has announced it is set to roll out digital financial services projects in countries in Africa, Asia and the Pacific, reaching as many as...
