The recent announcement of joint efforts by Microsoft to build new financial services for businesses hints at a multipronged effort to boost financial inclusion …...
Microsoft and Vodafone have launched a $1.5 billion payments and AI-focused collaboration. The partnership will see the companies employ Microsoft’s generative artificial intelligence (AI) to...
Kenyan telecom Safaricom has brought its mobile money service M-Pesa to Ethiopia. As the Financial Times (FT) reported Saturday (Aug. 26), the service went live in Africa’s second-most populous country...
Payments infrastructure TerraPay has launched a cross-border remittance partnership with Kenyan telecommunications firm Safaricom. The collaboration, announced Wednesday (July 19), will operate through TerraPay’s remittance...
In 2019, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said it was time to simplify money movement and make sending money to someone as easy as sending a...
Kenya is known as the home of mobile payment system M-Pesa, and it is also one of the few African countries to have made significant...
Safaricom and Kenya’s Higher Education Loans Board (HELB) have partnered on a mobile wallet and a mini app. The new HELB Mobile Wallet will allow...
With an increasing number of businesses going digital, virtual cards are fast becoming the preferred method of payments in various markets across the world, thanks...
As part of the ongoing separation of Airtel Africa’s mobile money business from the parent telecommunications company, Airtel Kenya’s division has become the latest to...