Millicom, announced that Tigo Pesa, its Mobile Financial Services in Tanzania, has joined with WorldRemit, the London-based online peer to peer money transfer service. The partnership will enable the Tanzanian diaspora to directly send money to families and friends back home through their smartphones, tablets and computers. Announcing the launch in Dar es Salaam today,
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
Africa’s leading hotel booking platform Jovago.com has announced the incorporation of Tigo Pesa, one of the region’s major mobile money transfer services. This partnership gives the customer yet another option for efficiency on top of the available card payments and pay-on-arrival model. “Africa is definitely moving on to the digital world, as part of this
Mahindra Comviva, the global leader in providing mobility solutions, announced that it has enabled the world’s first domestic interoperable mobile financial service between Airtel Money and Tigo Pesa in Tanzania. The service allows customers to send and receive money directly between the mobile money accounts of these two service providers. The new service made the
Online money transfer service WorldRemit has partnered operator Tigo Tanzania to allow individuals sending money to friends and family living in Tanzania to have the funds delivered to a Tigo Pesa mobile wallet. The deal is available for customers sending money from the 35 countries in which Tigo has a presence, with the companies saying
Tigo has partnered with 17 major banks in Tanzania to enable its clients send and receive money through transactions between the banks and Tigo Pesa. Launching the service in Dar es Salaam, the company announced that Tigo customers will now have round the clock ability to instantly withdraw and deposit funds via Tigo Pesa to
