Forgetting your M-PESA PIN or getting locked out of your account can be frustrating, especially when you need to access your money urgently. To save customers from the trouble, Safaricom has made it ...

Visa and Safaricom launch a virtual card to let M-Pesa users transact over Visa's network. Digital payments are quickly replacing cash in Africa—making the region an attractive destination for digital ...

M-Pesa, the mobile phone-based African money transfer service owned by Kenya's Safaricom Plc, and Visa Inc launched a virtual payment card on Thursday in a bid to capture some of the continent's $40 ...

Tax experts have argued against the proposal, seeing it as detrimental to the growth of digital payments and expect providers ...

The country's successful mobile banking and payments initiative, M-Pesa, turns 10, while the rest of the world plays catch-up. Katie is a UK-based news reporter and features writer. Officially, she is ...

An M-Pesa stall in Nairobi, Kenya. EPA/DAI KUROKAWA It started as a development project in Kenya designed to help poor rural entrepreneurs without bank accounts. Now M-Pesa, a phone-based money ...

Global digital payments giant Visa and East Africa’s biggest telecom Safaricom, the operator of the M-Pesa mobile money product, have today launched a virtual card, enabling millions of M-Pesa users ...

Everyone says their fintech will change lives. This one did. One of the world's most influential and important fintechs has just passed another milestone. Africa's first mobile payment service, M-Pesa ...

Safaricom’s customers transacted Sh29.5 trillion shillings through M-Pesa in the year to March 2022, showing how key the mobile money platform has become to Kenya's economy. The value of M-Pesa ...

Confusion reigned at petrol stations in Addis Ababa in April as long queues formed outside forecourts. The reason – a new policy suddenly dictated that all fuel payments had to be made using Telebirr, ...