M-PESA

5 results about this entity

Period: 07 Nov 2018 - 20 Sep 2024

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Company announcement/payments

Safaricom and Mastercard team on cross-border remittances in Kenya

Safaricom and Mastercard have signed a partnership to accelerate the adoption of payment acceptance and cross-border remittance services in Kenya. This collaboration is set to benefit over 636,000 merchants using M-PESA, Safaricom’s leading mobile money service.

20 September 2024

News/inclusion

M-Pesa goes live in Ethiopia

Kenyan telco Safaricom has launched its ground-breaking M-Pesa mobile money service in Ethiopia.

28 August 2023

News/inclusion

Kenya central bank governor: ‘Regulators should be the most innovative people of all’

In a virtual fireside discussion during Singapore Fintech Festival 2020, Patrick Njoroge, Governor of the Central Bank of Kenya argued that regulators must use their convening power to bring people and innovators together, this would change the dynamic between innovators and the regulators themselves to improve the journey toward digital transformation.

09 December 2020

News/payments

Covid-19: M-Pesa waives fees to discourage cash usage

Kenyan telco Safaricom is waiving fees for its hugely popular M-Pesa mobile money service in an effort to encourage people to ditch cash during the Covid-19 pandemic.

18 March 2020

News/payments

Western Union reinforces M-Pesa's inclusion stronghold by unlocking global pay-outs

Western Union has partnered with Safaricom, Kenya’s mobile network and wallet provider to allow 28 million M-Pesa users to send outbound money transfers overseas.

07 November 2018