More than 70% of prepaid electricity users prefer to use their mobile phones to buy electricity tokens than any other outlet, a survey conducted by Kenya Power has revealed. M-Pesa is the most popular facility accounting for 95% of all mobile based prepaid purchases. Kenya Power currently has 340,000 customers on prepaid metering system. The
TSYS announced that it supports Paynet, one of Kenya’s leading financial services providers to issuers and acquirers, in its ‘Great Migration to EMV Chip Card’ campaign. Founded in 2003 and headquartered in Nairobi, Kenya, Paynet has been a TSYS client since 2004. It licenses PRIME 4, the latest version of the TSYS licensed card and merchant management
The State Law Office of Kenya has entered into a partnership with Safaricom to automate some of its services. The KSh 14 million contract will see Safriacom providing it’s M-Pesa platform for the payment of services such as registration of companies, societies, or weddings. The announcement was made at an event held at the SLO
The Kenyan government has put forward a plan to have all public sector payments made through the Postal Corporation of Kenya. This was announced at the launch of Posta Pesa, the corporation’s new Sh84 million e-payment platform. In a bid to keep the postal corporation relevant in an increasingly digital era they are hoping to
Airtel Networks limited has entered into a partnership with Equity Bank in Kenya and First Bank of Nigeria that will offer comprehensive mobile commerce solutions to their customers in Kenya and Nigeria, through Airtel Money. In Kenya the service, available to all customers with Airtel lines, will enable customers from both Airtel and Equity Bank
MasterCard has signed a deal with regional card processor Paynet Group to partner in a local initiative geared towards encouraging the switch from magnetic strip to EMV cards. Dubbed “The Great Migration to EMV Chip,” the local initiative brings together various stakeholders in Kenya’s banking and payments technology sectors in an effort to hasten the switch
Regional banking group, Equity Bank’s reduction of interest rates by 700 bps from 25% to 18% has paid off by growing its loan book by Kshs 11 billion to Kshs 150 billion from Kshs 139 billion in the first quarter 2013 resulting in a growth of 21% in Year on Year. The massive reduction in
Kenyatta University has unveiled a new prepaid, PayPass™-enabled card for its alumni body. The KU Alumni Card allows alumni to enjoy discounts with selected partners, ranging from hotels, bookshops and hospitals to insurance companies and mobile phone service providers. The KU Alumni Card allows card holders to transact at over 34 million MasterCard points of
The rising threat of automated teller machine (ATM) fraud, and the innovative technology solutions that financial institutions could adopt to address security challenges, will dominate discussion at tomorrow’s conference in Nairobi. At the event, Diebold, Incorporated and its Kenya distributor, Tracom Services Ltd., will showcase advanced self-service technology and security solutions that boost branch productivity
Tangazoletu Limited recently launched one of its products ‘Spot Cash’ at the Hotel Starbucks in Karatina town of Central province, Kenya. Speaking during the event, the company’s Technical Director Chris Gathingu, clearly explained that members of SACCOs (Savings and Credit Cooperatives) and Microfinance institutions will now be able to withdraw and deposit their money from
