Ugandan serial entrepreneur Teddy Ruge has launched a homegrown quick-pay service that targets the diaspora and aims to compete with industry giants such as Western Union and Moneygram. His project, Remit.ug, provides Ugandans living in the diaspora with the ability to send money to loved-ones using an African service, thus helping to boost the economy
FNB Zambia and Visa have introduced the annual Card Security Briefing, an initiative aimed at creating greater awareness amongst consumers to adopt cards as a safe and convenient way to make their daily purchases. Over time, cards have increasingly become popular way of paying for goods and services in Zambia. FNB forecasts that the value
Kopo Kopo, a merchant services platform serving thousands of businesses in East Africa, announced that it raised $2.6 million in Series A financing. Javelin Venture Partners led the round with Vinod Khosla’s Impact Fund, an existing investor. Accion Venture Lab also participated. Noah Doyle of Javelin Venture Partners will join Kopo Kopo’s board of directors.
Equity Bank Group’s focus on enhancing affordability, accessibility and convenience has seen its growth momentum maintained for the period ended 30th September 2013. The regional banking group has posted a 17% growth in customer deposits, a growth of Kshs.28 billion to Kshs.190 billion up from Kshs.162 billion. The impressive growth has been enabled by massive
Air Uganda in conjunction with the leading Mobile Money service provider MTN has introduced a new, fast and convenient mobile money payment option on its billing platform. The new payment option enables customers to pay for their air tickets using their MTN mobile phones. The move comes as part of Air Uganda’s desire to empower
The Kenyan banking industry has successfully upgraded its Automated Teller Machine (ATM) network following an industry wide initiative that was spearheaded by the Kenya Bankers Association (KBA), the industry umbrella body. In an effort to enhance ATM security in the country, KBA members have adopted the global standard known as EMV, which is based on
Ecobank Transnational Incorporated, the leading pan-African banking group, is pleased to announce the official opening of its Ethiopian representative office in Addis Ababa. This brings the total number of countries in Sub-Saharan Africa in which Ecobank has a presence to 35. The Group obtained a license to operate a representative office in July 2013. The
Equity Bank and PayPal announced that merchants in Kenya can now sell to PayPal’s global customer base of more than 137 million active accounts in 193 markets around the world and move the proceeds to their Equity Bank accounts. This new service allows PayPal users to withdraw funds to their qualifying Equity Bank accounts from
Leading Regional East African retail chain Nakumatt Holdings Limited today launched the Nakumatt Global Prepaid MasterCard card, in partnership with Kenya Commercial Bank and Diamond Trust Bank. The new card, which is EMV compliant, replaces the current Nakumatt Cybercash loyalty smartcard and provides a range of enhanced benefits and security features. With the multicurrency Nakumatt
KCB Bank Group has today made a key milestone in its technology-driven innovation targeting the unbanked population by launching a new product dubbed KCB M-Benki, the first in Kenya and the region. KCB M-Benki, will be accessed through the phone, and it allows any individual to easily open a bank account through the KCB Mobi
