Vodacom Tanzania and WorldRemit Launch Mobile Money Transfers to M-Pesa Accounts in Tanzania

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Leading digital money transfer service WorldRemit has partnered with Vodacom Tanzania to enable nine million M-Pesa customers to receive money directly to their M-Pesa wallets from friends and family living abroad. The new service increases convenience for money transfer recipients in urban and rural areas of Tanzania as they can receive international money transfers directly to

uKheshe Partners With Mastercard to Bring Mobile Payments to Unbanked South Africans

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uKheshe, a locally developed financial inclusion platform, has further enhanced its offering to the unbanked by collaborating with Mastercard to enable informal traders, street vendors and casual labourers to accept digital payments through Masterpass, Mastercard’s digital payment service. By combining their expertise and reach, the companies intend to boost financial inclusion, targeting the more than

FNB Launches Easy Zero, a No Monthly Fee Digital Account With a Card

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FNB has launched Easy Zero, a fully-fledged digital bank account with a card to allow customers to transact easily, conveniently and safely without paying a monthly fee. The mobile account was formerly known as eWallet eXtra. The revamped digital account will now have a branded FNB bank card, providing customers with free card swipes, cost-effective

Chat Commerce in Africa has Leapfrogged Other Regions

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Speaking at an event hosted at AfricaCom in Cape Town this week, Clickatell co-founder and CEO, Pieter de Villiers shared his insight into chat commerce and chat banking and how they will forever change the way business is done on the continent. Chat commerce and chat banking have revolutionised the way companies are serving their

Mama Money Improves Financial Control with Duco Reconciliation Platform

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Duco’s automated matching process provides the capacity of two full time employees. Having gone live in 24h, costs are now capped, enabling rapid and controlled scaling. Duco, the global leader of cloud-based enterprise data integrity and next-generation reconciliation services have announced that Mama Money, the world’s first social business money transfer operator, has gone live

Zazu to Launch Mastercard Prepaid Cards Linked to its Mobile Wallet – a First in Zambia

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Zazu and Mastercard partnership to drive digital payment adoption and reduce cash through globally accepted prepaid and virtual cards In a market first, Zazu Africa Limited (Zazu) announced a partnership with Mastercard to issue prepaid cards linked to the Zazu app in a move that will help to reduce cash dependence and increase financial inclusion

MTN Launches Mobile Money API Hackathon

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In pursuit of its goal to contribute to bridging the financial divide, MTN Group has granted third parties access to its Mobile Money (MoMo) Access Programming Interface (API) platform. The open API enables developers and programmers to innovate on the platform and develop products and other solutions that will create a wider range of digital

Cellulant Unveils Tingg, Africa’s First Payments Super App in 8 Countries

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Cellulant, Africa’s leading financial technology company has announced the launch of Tingg, an all-in-one, multi-functional consumer super app that will include a wide array of payment, commerce and financial services into a single platform that will revolutionize the way customers interact with digital payment services in the continent. Tingg is Cellulant’s solution to the fragmentation

Shop on Amazon, Pay in Cash

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Amazon is making it even easier for customers to pay with cash. Amazon PayCode, already available in 19 countries around the world, launches today in the U.S. and allows customers to choose Amazon PayCode at checkout and then pay for their purchase in cash at one of 15,000 Western Union locations. Items ship once customers

Samsung Pay Cash Launches with Mastercard

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Our mobile phones have become the epicenters of our lives. Today, we connect with friends, watch shows, hail cabs, reserve restaurants, buy things and pay each other all via our mobile devices. In fact, nearly four billion people – half the global population – are expected to use their devices to pay by 2024, according