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- Safaricom to launch visa virtual card
- NIGERIA: Airtel Africa unit launches mobile banking
- NIGERIA: Central Bank Issues Guidelines For Open Banking In Nigeria
- GHANA: Mobile Money transactions value for April declines by 3%
- MTN Nigeria gets final approval for MoMo Bank
- Mobile Money: Nigeria, others account for 69.8% of global transactions - report
- KENYA: M-Shwari savings surpass Sh32b mark amid borrowing frenzy
- KENYA: Top banks urge CBK to reinstate M-Pesa fees
- TOGO: Cinetpay deploys a new online payment gateway
- Ghana parliament approves tax on electronic payments
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Airtel Africa CEO Segun Ogunsanya pledged to revolutionise financial services in Nigeria and drive inclusion, as the company’s local mobile banki...
The Central Bank of Nigeria has issued the Regulatory Framework for Open Banking in Nigeria.The Bank recognized the existence of a...
Telecom firm, MTN, has received final approval from Nigerian regulators to run a payment service bank, the wireless carrier said in a regulatory...
NIGERIA and other Sub-Saharan African countries accounted for 69.77 per cent of total mobile money transactions in 2021, according to a report by...
Leading Pan-African payments company Cellulant and Africa’s global bank, United Bank for Africa (UBA) Plc, have announced a partnership that will...
The Association of Mobile Money and Bank Agents in Nigeria (AMMBAN) has condemned what it described as indiscriminate issuance of Point of Sales...
In the month preceding the implementation of the Electronic-Levy, the total value of Mobile Money transactions reduced by a 3 per cent margin fro...
Ivorian fintech CinetPay has recently deployed a new payment gateway to secure operators on its online transaction platform. According...
Ghana's parliament approved a new 1.5% tax on electronic payments, known as the "e-levy", on Tuesday after the opposition walked out in protest.F...
Lonestar Cell MTN has announced a Mobile Money service that would allow subscribers to exchange US Dollars for Liberian dollars within their mobi...
The total value of mobile money transactions in 2021 is estimated at GH₵953.2 billion, Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta has revealed.He was speaki...
GITFiC and MOWALI SAS have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to facilitate the rollout of Payment System to the attainment of their Developmen...
Safaricom is set to launch a virtual Visa card as it further seeks to deepen its hold on mobile payments among Kenyans. The card would also enabl...
Customers have saved Sh32 billion on NCBA mobile account, M-Shwari, and used it to borrow nearly three times the amount.NCBA Group Managing...
Kenya’s top banks have renewed push for the regulator to reinstate charges on transfers of money between bank accounts and mobile money wallets,...
Safaricom’s M-Pesa retains a competitive advantage over the proposed Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) due to the wide reach of its agent netw...
Kenya's biggest telecoms operator Safaricom is considering turning its M-Pesa mobile financial services business into a subsidiary, its cha...
The Central Bank of Kenya (CBK) will relaunch M-Akiba in a bid to spur uptake of the retail infrastructure bond.CBK Governor Dr Pa...
The Central Bank of Egypt (CBE) has announced the activation of the InstaPay application on Wednesday 23 March, which is functioning in tandem wi...
The Central Bank of Egypt (CBE) approved Wednesday the launch of the electronic portal for managing mobile phone wallet accounts, in cooperation...
The Board of Directors of the Central Bank of Egypt (CBE) approved the rules governing the services of the instantaneous payment network within t...
Cash-strapped Egyptians fearful of banks have long relied on a "gameya" to access money in time of need, but now tech startups are cashing in on...
Egypt's central bank has approved the granting of licences to allow merchants to accept contactless payments from their customers' mobile p...
The Egyptian Cabinet’s Information and Decision Support Center (IDSC) announced Sunday that Egypt has joined the list of countries whose central...
MTN Group Ltd will seek minority investors in its African fintech unit after it spun off the division from the operator’s traditional telecoms bu...
Malawi Red Cross Society (MRCS) and Mukuru have donated food items worth over K5 million to flood survivors in Chikwawa.Mukuru's country represen...
Clickatell (https://bit.ly/3xnA5aF), a leader in mobile communications and chat commerce, has been selected by leading African retailer Pick n Pa...
CASSAVA Smartech's mobile money business, EcoCash, revenue for the year to February 28, 2021 declined by 26 percent to $8,6 billion compared to $...
UNITEL on Monday launched a digital money service "UNITEL Money" in Angola, the UNITEL's press office confirmed here to Xinhua.The service allows...
When Cassava Smartech was demerged from Econet Zimbabwe and separately listed on the Zimbabwe Stock Exchange, the move was seen as the beginning...
Papaya Global, the global people management platform for the remote working era, announced today that it has agreed to acquire Azimo,...
Dubai: Network International (Network), the leading enabler of digital commerce across the Middle East and Africa (MEA), and TerraPay, ...
The Western Union Company (NYSE: WU), a global leader in cross-border, cross-currency money movement and payments, today announces the advancemen...
Revenue growth of 19% y/y; driven by spending recovery in the UAE UAE and Jordan value of payments processed with merchant customers (direct...
Today, the Stellar Development Foundation (SDF) announced that Flutterwave, a global payments technology company, has launched two...
TerraPay, a global payments infrastructure company, today announced the partnership with LuLu International Exchange, part of the LuLu Financial...
