Airtel and Tigo Launch Mobile Money Interoperability in Tanzania

Airtel Tanzania and Tigo Tanzania have partnered for a cross-network money transfer service that will make it possible for subscribers from both networks to send and receive money between their mobile money wallets. HumanIPO reported in June three mobile operators in Tanzania  Tigo, Airtel and Zantel  announced they would launch interoperability for mobile money services,

Currencies Acceptable in All EAC States

Residents of Kenya, Rwanda, Uganda, Burundi and Tanzania will now be able to travel with their respective national currencies in other East African Community (EAC) countries and make digital cross-border cash transactions in real time. The new development comes through the just launched East African Community project on Payment and Settlement Systems Integration Programme (PSSIP)

MasterCard and Ecobank Announce Multi-country Agreement in 28 Sub-Saharan African Countries

Ecobank Transnational Inc. and MasterCard, have announced a multi-country licensing agreement which will provide access to MasterCard’s electronic payments solutions for Ecobank’s customers in a further 23 African countries. The agreement is the culmination of a Memorandum of Understanding (“MOU”) originally signed in November 2011, and importantly, enables electronic payments access to more than 60%

Drivers of Mobile Payment Adoption: Comparing Kenya and Tanzania

Professor Dan Horne, Chief Knowledge Officer at Gx, in conjunction with Dionne Nickerson of Providence College,  has recently published a white paper called ‘Understanding the Drivers of Mobile Payment Adoption: Comparing Kenya and Tanzania’. The study looks at the perceived impact on business development and wealth creation that pervasive mobile payments usage generates and compares

TPA Automates Payment System

Tanzania Ports Authority (TPA) has automated its billing and payment system, a move that seeks to improve revenue collections and transform the authority’s operations to paperless. According to TPA’s Acting Director of Information and Communication Technology, Phares Magesa, the electronic payment system that has started with CRDB bank, will in the next two weeks, be