Mobile Money

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  Mobile Money

  Safaricom upgrades M-PESA backbone as API transactions hit 25%

  Kenn Abuya

  25th November 2025

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  FinTech, Mobile Money

  How to update your SASSA banking details and cellphone number

  Sakhile Dube

  25th November 2025

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  Mobile Money

  Update: NCBA works to restore M-Shwari after outage locked customers out of savings

  Kenn Abuya

  3rd November 2025

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  Mobile Money

  Airtel Africa’s mobile money processes nearly $200bn as it readies public listing

  Frank Eleanya

  28th October 2025

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  Mobile Money

  Togo’s Gozem expands into mobile money with new fintech platform

  Opeyemi Kareem

  14th October 2025

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  Mobile Money

  MTN MoMo processed $2.1 billion. Now it wants to connect Africa’s wallets

  Frank Eleanya

  13th October 2025

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  Mobile Money

  Safaricom just completed M-PESA’s biggest upgrade in a decade, but will partners plug in?

  Kenn Abuya

  22nd September 2025

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  Mobile Money

  M-PESA is upgrading its platform on Sept. 22; here’s what customers can expect after

  Kenn Abuya

  19th September 2025

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  Mobile Money

  Safaricom is quietly adding utility services into M-PESA super app

  Kenn Abuya

  6th September 2025

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  Mobile Money

  M-PESA users can now send up to $3,850 to banks with PesaLink

  Kenn Abuya

  5th September 2025

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  Banking, Mobile Money

  What Standard Bank’s mobile money push means for South African customers

  Sakhile Dube

  5th September 2025

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  Mobile Money

  Safaricom targets 8,000 transactions per second in M-PESA upgrade by 2026

  Adonijah Ndege

  21st August 2025

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  Mobile Money

  Safaricom adds PayPal withdrawals to M-PESA app to woo Kenya’s remote workers

  Kenn Abuya

  23rd July 2025

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  Mobile Money

  M-PESA’s market share drops for sixth straight quarter as Airtel Money gains ground

  Kenn Abuya

  30th June 2025

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  Mobile Money

  Safaricom’s Ziidi money market fund on the spot over anti-competitive behaviour 

  Kenn Abuya

  17th June 2025

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  Mobile Money, News, Telecoms

  MTN Uganda to spin off mobile money unit into a standalone fintech

  Adonijah Ndege

  11th June 2025

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  Mobile Money

  Safaricom to launch credit, savings products to boost M-PESA in Ethiopia

  Kenn Abuya

  9th May 2025

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  Companies, Mobile Money, News

  Airtel plans 2026 IPO for mobile money unit in push against M-Pesa, MoMo

  Adonijah Ndege

  8th May 2025

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  Analysis, Mobile Money

  Why Safaricom is spending $309 million annually to future-proof M-Pesa

  Adonijah Ndege

  6th May 2025

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  Mobile Money

  Safaricom’s big fix: How M-PESA cut daily reversal requests from 12,000 to 4,000

  Kenn Abuya

  4th March 2025

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  Mobile Money

  COMESA investigates Airtel, MTN over hidden mobile money fees

  Adonijah Ndege

  3rd February 2025

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  Mobile Money

  Airtel Money eats into M-PESA’s dominance in Kenya, doubling market share to 7.6%

  Kenn Abuya

  28th January 2025

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  Companies, Mobile Money

  The most popular payment methods in Kenya 2024: Cash is king but M-Pesa remains huge

  Adonijah Ndege

  18th December 2024

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  FinTech, Mobile Money

  Kenyan parliament pushes for Safaricom, M-PESA split

  Kenn Abuya

  8th October 2024

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  FinTech, Mobile Money

  Safaricom and Pezesha launch new loan service for small businesses

  Kenn Abuya

  17th June 2024

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  Mobile Money

  Safaricom stops M-PESA transfers to unregistered users

  Kenn Abuya

  3rd February 2024

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  Exclusive, Mobile Money, Regulation

  Exclusive: Nigerian PoS terminals will get fraud-flagging feature by end of Q1 2024

  Frank Eleanya

  30th January 2024

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  Mobile Money

  Safaricom silent on details as M-PESA outage continues in Kenya

  Kenn Abuya

  23rd January 2024

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  Mobile Money

  M-PESA GlobalPay users will get tap-to-pay capabilities following Visa partnership

  Kenn Abuya

  17th December 2023

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  Mobile Money

  Safaricom Ethiopia makes $43,368 in M-PESA revenue three months after launch

  Kenn Abuya

  17th November 2023

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  Ecosystem, Mobile Money

  Mobile money users in Tanzania are going back to cash payments to avoid high transaction charges

  Kenn Abuya

  22nd October 2023

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  Mobile Money

  Exclusive: Safaricom launches standing orders for M-PESA users

  Kenn Abuya

  12th October 2023

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  Mobile Money

  M-PESA to introduce standing orders as Safaricom strengthens its mobile money product

  Kenn Abuya

  2nd September 2023

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  Mobile Money

  M-PESA goes live in Ethiopia today, but it has a long way to catch up to Telebirr

  Kenn Abuya

  16th August 2023

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  Mobile Money

  After M-PESA, Airtel Money increases wallet limit to $3,400

  Kenn Abuya

  15th August 2023

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  Mobile Money

  In a move to support SMEs, Safaricom’s M-PESA increases daily limit to $3,400

  Kenn Abuya

  14th August 2023

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  Banking, Mobile Money

  M-PESA experiences downtime in Kenya as bank-to-mobile money transfers stall

  Kenn Abuya

  27th July 2023

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  Mobile Money

  As M-PESA plans to enter Ethiopia, it faces a stiff rivalry from Ethio Telecom’s Telebirr

  Kenn Abuya

  26th July 2023

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  Mobile Money, News

  PoS operators may stop services as FCCPC blocks price increase

  Joseph Olaoluwa

  7th July 2023

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  Mobile Money

  Despite Kenya’s central bank backing, mobile money rivals are no match for M-PESA

  Kenn Abuya

  26th June 2023