Vodafone extended M-Pesa to Ghana, the 11th Vodafone market across Africa, Asia and Europe to benefit from the world’s leading mobile money transfer service. The launch of the service, operating in Ghana under the ‘Vodafone Cash’ brand, follows a successful pilot launched in August 2015. Around 15 million people – approximately 64% of the population
Qatar Airways, the national airline of the State of Qatar, has entered into a strategic partnership with one of the world’s leading mobile money service providers, Vodacom, to launch a service that now enables customers to pay for Qatar Airways tickets using the M-Pesa service. The new service offers greater flexibility for Qatar Airways’ passengers
In yet another exciting development in mobile money innovation, MTN Rwanda, the country’s telecommunications leader has announced that it has opened its corridor with Safaricom in Kenya that will see MTN Mobile Money and M-PESA users send and receive money seamlessly and affordably between the two countries. This comes just a month after the Company
Safaricom has introduced a new enhancement to M-PESA that will enable customers confirm the name of the intended recipient of funds, before completing an M-PESA transaction. ‘Hakikisha’ which has been under pilot for the last one month will be rolled out in phases with a view to covering the entire 21.7 million M-PESA customer base
Safaricom has opened up its M-PESA platform to allow local and international developers to come up with next-generation applications that will work with the most preferred mobile money solution. By availing M-PESA’s Application Programming Interface (API), Safaricom is fulfilling a promise made during the commissioning of the new M-PESA technological platform in April this year.
SimbaPay a leading digital money transfer provider – announced the launch of the first product in the world that allows Kenyans living abroad to make M-Pesa PayBill payments. This is a new addition to the existing SimbaPay platform. M-Pesa PayBill is an M-Pesa service that has previously only been available to Safaricom M-Pesa subscribers in
Safaricom has announced that it has started final preparations for the launch of the second generation of its M-PESA platform as it prepares to perform a full scale system upgrade aimed at improving efficiencies and speed over the next week. Safaricom had first announced plans to replace its M-PESA platform last year, seeking to migrate
Safaricom has announced a new service that will allow organizations to track funds sent to beneficiaries via its mobile money solution M-PESA. The solution, named M-PESA SurePay, is a closed loop payment system engineered for corporates and Public Benefit Organisations (PBO’s) who disburse funds directly to beneficiaries. The funds are sent directly to a beneficiaries
TRANSFAST, the global money transfer company, announced partnerships with three leading Kenyan banks for instant deposits, and the launch of M-PESA service. Both instant deposits and M-PESA service enable customers worldwide, online and in person, to make instant transfers to Kenya 24x7x365, including bank holidays. In addition to the instant services, TRANSFAST offers same-day deposits
Millions of M-Pesa and Tigo Pesa customers in Tanzania will soon be able to send and receive money directly into each other’s wallets. This follows the recent signing of a mobile money interoperability agreement between Tigo and Vodacom. The agreement announced, will for the first time see four million Tigo Pesa users exchanging money directly
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