Airtel Tanzania has announced an innovative new service on Airtel money that will provide its customers with a new experience when transacting with mobile money. Speaking during the launch, Airtel Managing Director Sunil Colaso said: “Today we are happy to launch our new Airtel Money campaign dubbed “Hatoki Mtu Hapa” loosely meaning “no one will
After its official launch in Kampala in January 2014, The Helix Institute of Digital Finance has this week published its ‘Agent Network Accelerator Survey – Uganda Country Report’. The Uganda report is the first of eight country reports on agent networks, as part of the cutting-edge Agent Network Accelerator (ANA) research project/ ANA, a collaboration
ABI Research has forecast that over 34 billion tickets will be delivered to mobile devices over the next five years. The combined number takes into consideration the multiple technologies used to present a mobile ticket at time of authentication, including QR codes, NFC, SMS, mobile wallets, Bluetooth Smart, and dedicated apps. In terms of the
Mobile Telecommunications Limited (MTC) Namibia, a network and Telecommunications Company, has partnered with Mobicash Payment Solutions (Pty) Ltd, trading as MobiPay to offer mobile payment solutions in Namibia. MTC Money is a payment solutions that allows you to use your cellphone to transfer/withdraw/deposit money, buy airtime, electricity, pay bills and make Point of Sale (POS)
TIGO and NMB Bank have launched an innovative service that enables customers of the bank and Tigo-Pesa services to deposit and transfer funds through a mobile phone. Speaking at the event, Mr Ruan Swanepoel, TigoPesa Commercial Manager and Mr Tom Borghols the NMB Acting Chief Executive Officer and Chief Risk Officer described the new service
Kenyan payments provider Paynet has merged its PesaPoint agent network with that of Pep Intermedius, aimed at growing the PesaPoint brand and expanding its network. The expansion of the PesaPoint network will be taking place ahead of its new multi-institution agency model expected to be rolled out in partnership with mobile money providers and banks.
Vodafone and MoneyGram, a global money transfer and global payment services company, have teamed up to enable consumers to transfer funds directly from around 200 countries to the millions of users of M-Pesa. This service will be launched in key markets during the second quarter of 2014, with additional roll-out planned throughout the remainder of
Kenya’s CfC Stanbic Bank has launched its “Till2Bank” service enabling business clients to accept payments via mobile money. CfC Stanbic Bank business banking and small and medium enterprise (SME) banking clients can now accept payments via M-Pesa, with the payment landing in the business bank account immediately. “We are delighted to be the first bank
Kenya’s Safaricom is set to sign a deal with Skrill, a US-based remittances and online payment company, allowing Kenyan diaspora to send money directly to M-Pesa accounts. “All you need to send money is the receiver’s full name and an M-Pesa mobile phone number. The money is then instantly deposited directly into their activated mobile
The Commercial Bank of Africa and leading integrated communications services provider Safaricom have announced plans to increase the number of M-Shwari customers in the coming months. The two organisations aspire to grow the number of people using the revolutionary service that allows them to save and borrow loans against their savings, from the current 6
