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- KENYA: New mobile money system mooted amid M-Pesa crisis
- NIGERIA:Zenith Bank unveils POS collection without payment cards
- Ecobank links up with Okapi to offer 33-state money transfer deal
- Crypto to Get Regulatory Nod in South Africa
- kenya: Govt to probe M-Pesa services outage
- South Africa: Court Ruling Provides Some Relief for Borrowers
- kenya:Inua Jamii beneficiaries to get cash via banks
- NIGERIA: Airtel confirms plans to establish Payment Service Bank
- M-Pesa to send cash direct to China’s WeChat users
- McKinsey says fintechs threat to Kenyan banks
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LAGOS—Zenith Bank Plc has launched the Unstructured Supplementary Service Data, USSD, payments on Point of Sales (USSD on POS), enabling cu...
Nigeria’s second largest network operator, Airtel, has confirmed plans to establish a Payment Service Bank in order to promote financial inclusio...
Mobile money transfer in Nigeria rose 43 percent over a ten-month period, driven by customer convenience, low transaction charges, and increased...
Paga, the leading mobile money company in Nigeria announced that it has signed on as the exclusive payment partner to Orange Mall, an e-commerce...
MTN Group will apply for a mobile banking licence in Nigeria and plans to launch the service there next year.Nigeria announced last month that it...
The Association of Mobile Money Agents in Nigeria (AMMAN) has set machinery in motion to ensure financial inclusion for the over 60 million under...
In a further development of its position as an integrated financial services organization offering exceptional value, Standard Bank is entering t...
The second phase of the Mobile Money Interoperability is completed and expected to be rolled out on Wednesday November 28, 2018.The Minister...
Payments technology platform, Visa, in partnership with leading Ghanaian banks, announced the launch of Visa-on-mobile, its innovative mobile pay...
Mobile money data has become a source of a feud between the Communications ministry demanding it and the Central Bank which is keeping ...
Last Tuesday, Paykap, mobile money transfer and e-payment solution behind Fricacoin, Africa’s first cryptocurrency, signed various partnership ag...
Cross mobile money wallet transactions otherwise known as mobile money interoperability, has recorded over 1.1 million volume of transactions, fr...
The Government plans to launch a common mobile money wallet next year that will make it possible for full interoperability between service provid...
Kenyans can trade across borders via their mobile phones after Pan-African lender, Ecobank signed a partnership deal with e-wallet provider, Okap...
ICT Cabinet Secretary Joe Mucheru has instructed the Communications Authority of Kenya (CA) to liaise with the Central Bank of Kenya and investig...
The government is preparing to roll out a new Inua Jamii payment model to 9,553 beneficiaries of the National Safety Net Programme in Marsabit to...
Safaricom’s M-Pesa users are now able to send money instantly to users of China’s largest payment and social media application, WeChat.The partne...
By CHARLES MWANIKIKenyan banks risk being crowded out of the daily payments and commerce space in financial intermediation by agile and innovativ...
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...
Authorities in South Africa are seeking comments on proposed policy changes that could, among other things, offer cryptocurrencies regu...
By Ciaran RyanBorrowers with more than one debt outstanding were given some protection last week when the Supreme Court of Appeal ruled that the...
Global payments company Visa, the second-largest card payment company to China Union Pay – CUP on a global level is expected see a drastic drop i...
Nume EkegheThe Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has stated that any failed Nigerian Instant Payment (NIP) transaction not reversed into the customer...
Access Bank Zambia, a member of Access Bank group Plc plans to launch whatsApp banking on the Zambian market. This follow successful launches and...
AMA.ZING is now offering millions of Zimbabweans the ability to purchase US$-linked digital coins that are easily converted to buy products and p...
Two of Africa’s largest mobile operators and mobile money providers, Orange Group (www.Orange.com) and MTN Group (www.MTN.com), has announce...
MasterCard, the world’s leading technology company in the global payments industry hosted the African Debit Forum recently to discuss role of tec...
The potent forces of globalization and migration make the global economy a formidable entity. Migration is integral as it helps boost the economy...
Xoom, PayPal’s international money transfer service, today announced a partnership with Ria, a subsidiary of Euronet Worldwide and a global...
An international payments provider, MoneyGram, has announced the expansion of its digital platform to five new countries.According to its operato...
Banco Agrario, a prominent state-run bank focused on rural and agricultural sector, Telefonica Colombia, one of the leading telecom operators in...
