M-Pesa’s My OneApp has surpassed 10 million downloads and accumulated approximately 691,000 reviews, making it one of the ...

On 14 December, a high court in Kenya will come to a preliminary decision in a battle between Bitcoin remittance and payments company BitPesa, which is suing Safaricom, the telecom company which ...

First launched in Kenya, the mobile payments service has transformed banking across much of Africa It now has 51 million users in eight African nations plus Afghanistan Economic and social impact has ...

The country’s second-largest telecom operator Vodafone India is taking steps to ensure that its 8.4 million M-Pesa customers can encash their digital money from specified outlets. Unlike a Paytm or ...

This content has been selected, created and edited by the Finextra editorial team based upon its relevance and interest to our community. In 2010, Kenyan payments, money transfer and micro-financing ...

M-Pesa (the ‘M’ stands for mobile and ‘pesa’ is the Swahili word for money) is an incredibly popular and successful mobile phone-based payment service founded in 2007 by the Vodafone Group and ...