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 ...

M‑Pesa is central to daily life for many Kenyans who use the platform to pay rent, buy electricity tokens, settle water bills ...

Safaricom on Tuesday unveiled a new service on its M-Pesa mobile financial services platform that will allow users to send money around the world in a partnership with Western Union. Started as a ...

Safaricom’s Chief Customer Officer, Sylvia Mulinge (centre), Western Union, Regional Vice-President-Southern, East and Anglophone West Africa, Richard Malcom (left), Safaricom, and Head of New ...

Digzer writes about his experience with M-Pesa, a service that allows people to send money using mobile phones: “For all the simplicity using Safaricom’s M-Pesa is meant to provide, I’ve had a rather ...

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 ...

M-PESA and PayPal are popular mobile money transfer platforms used by Kenyans and citizens of other nations. M-PESA is owned by Kenya’s telecommunications giant, Safaricom, while PayPal is an ...

Vodacom has introduced a tap-to-pay feature on its M-Pesa platform in Tanzania, becoming the first of its kind in Africa. The ...

M-Pesa Ethiopia last week announced the signing of an agreement with the country’s postal service EthioPost, officially designating EthioPost as the primary agent within the M-Pesa ecosystem. This ...