Kenya’s Safaricom has announced that it is partnering with Vodacom to acquire the intellectual property rights to the M-Pesa mobile financial services platform. Last year...
Welcome to The Axis, your late look at payments news from around the world. Coverage includes the rollout of a mini-program for mobile food ordering...
Western Union and M-PESA announce today a global P2P partnership that will make it easier for M-PESA customers to send money outside of Kenya and...
Kenya’s biggest mobile phone operator, Safaricom, is against a proposed tax rise on mobile phone-based cash transfers. In a budget speech last week, the country’s Finance...
Kenya’s Safaricom has launched a new Bonga platform, which is described as a “conversational and transactional social network.” The move will also leverage its M-Pesa...
PayPal and Safaricom announced a new collaboration that will enable people living in Kenya to move money between their M-PESA and PayPal accounts. In a press...
To allow users to make payments in a country where many people don’t have access to credit cards, Google Play has begun accepting payments through mobile...
More than half the world’s mobile money deployments are coming from a perhaps unexpected source: Sub-Saharan Africa. Yet in a way, that balance makes sense....
For South African eTailers, accepting cash is not an ‘if,’ but a ‘must.’ According to the latest PYMNTS Global Cash Index™ South Africa Analysis, cash...