ZEEPAY awarded the new "Young Gun" at the West African Mobile Awards 2016

The prestigious West African Mobile Awards, which is sponsored by anchor companies such as Twitter and Uber. Awarded ZeePay, an African focused Digital Financial Services company the award of Young Gun, 2016. This is indeed a testament of Zeepay's capabilities and innovative strength.

The competition drew participants from 3 continents with over 150 applicants, and yet Zeepay was not only nominated but won their category against strong Nigerian players such as Paywithcapture.

Zeepay is a digital MobileFintech that is mobile device and network agnostic and supports the provision of true branchless banking. Zeepay's business model by operation enables interoperability and allows banks to accepts mobile money wallets for payments using the new NFC technology, ie is tap and pay at Retail point of sale. The award winning platform, also supports digital termination of remittances into mobile wallets and bank accounts.

"Our strategy is to assist Mobile Network Operators (MNOs) grow their Mobile a Financial Services business, through the offering of other services in an effort to increase transactions. As well as give banks a skin in the game for mobile money, by allowing banks to accept mobile money wallets for payments via its point of sale devices" said Andrew Takyi-Appiah

"We embarked on this journey in 2014 and I am delighted to see the efforts of the team come to fruition. Our objective is to enable every point of sale device in Ghana for Branchless Banking nationwide and by so doing increasing the average revenue per PoS device, which is currently very flat in Ghana." Said Mr Kwame Achampong-Kyei, Director Zeepay and Chairman of the GLICO Group.

Mr Yankey, Director Zeepay and Chairman of Equity Assurance, stated "when we introduced the Branchless Banking guidelines in Ghana, what we sort to do is what Zeepay has achieved. Eight years down the line, it is refreshing to see a true Branchless Banking platform that is device and network agnostic, and as directors we shall continue to support the team in working with relevant stakeholders to achieve a true Branchless Banking ecosystem"

A journey of a thousand miles, indeed starts with the first step, what we have achieved today in receiving this award is as a result of a lot of efforts, support and coaching from over 15years and the day would not be complete without saying thank you to the following people:

"Join me in saying thank you to Our Chairman- Dr Anthony Appiah, Zoe Phillips, Dr K. Achampong-Kyei, Albert Essien, Dolapo Ogundimu, Felix Addo, Prince Kofi Amoabeng, Martyn Mensah, Julius Richardson, David Lawson, Joseph Sowason, Collins Yeboah, Team Zeepay and the people of Ghana for all your support and mentoring" said Andrew Takyi-Appiah, Co-Founder of Zeepay.
For more information visit www.myzeepay.com