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...
M-KOPA has raised $250 million to expand its financial services offering across sub-Saharan Africa. The Kenya-based company will use the new debt and equity funding to...
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...
Real-time payment systems have become increasingly popular around the world due to the rise of digital payments and the need for faster and more efficient...
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...
Nokia will deploy new digital infrastructure connecting Southern and Eastern Africa. The Finnish telecommunications company announced on Thursday (Feb. 2) that it has been selected...
The Kenyan government is pushing for a nationwide digital ID scheme. But the years-long implementation so far has been beset with complications. The government’s attempts...