“M-Pesa is a barometer of what’s happening in the [Kenyan] economy and how customers are behaving.” That description by Peter Ndegwa, CEO at Nairobi-based tech firm Safaricom, sums up the local dominance of the company’s pioneering mobile money transfer service, considered one of the most...
When a car is in the shop, customers and service advisors alike benefit when they have access to instant communication and fast payments. For customers, this technology delivers transparency and speed, which are two of the things they want most when their car is being...
Imagine a fashion influencer with millions of YouTube subscribers who is trying to monetize her online content and at the same time purchase a Spotify subscription to download the latest hit Rihanna song. Normally, the individual’s location would be irrelevant to completing the process, and...
Customers shopping at Australian retailers Woolworths and Big W will now be able to pay with QR codes, according to a Yahoo Finance report Wednesday (May 11). The payment system is called Everyday Pay and will work alongside Woolworths Everyday Rewards, which is done through...
South African mobile pay platform Zapper has announced that merchants on its platform will be able to accept tap-on-phone payments, a report said Tuesday (May 3). This will give them access to almost all digital payments, without needing other point-of-sale (POS) hardware, and it won’t...
P97 Networks, a mobile commerce platform, has partnered with Viva Energy Australia to roll out an app for fleet managers and drivers, a press release said. The app, called Shell Card Go, will provide fleet managers and drivers with contactless mobile payments, letting authorized drivers...
MercadoPago, the payments division of MercadoLibre — a Latin American eCommerce giant akin to Amazon — is now one of the company’s most profitable units, the Financial Times (FT) reported Thursday (April 28). MercadoLibre launched in 1999 as a second-hand marketplace in Argentina and has...
Merchant acceptance is key for new payments methodologies to reach critical mass, to truly become ingrained in commerce. In Brazil, Meta, in its bid to become a true payments giant across all use cases, is facing significant headwinds. Meta had been on the path to...
Long gone are the days when making mobile or digital purchases in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) was an almost impossible task. According to Sahar Salama, CEO and founder of Cairo-based TPay Mobile, even though millions of people in the region have limited...