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Insights on Open Banking Evolution in Africa – interview with Deloitte

Interviews | Online & Mobile Banking | 01 Feb 2024

Deloitte Africa explores how Africa's financial sector navigates Open Banking's rise, leveraging tech partnerships, overcoming regulatory gaps, and ensuring data security for inclusive, innovative finance.

Open Banking, Open Finance, regulation, report, fintech, banks

Safaricom to launch mobile money service in Ethiopia

News | Mobile Payments | 28 Aug 2023

Safaricom has announced plans to launch M-Pesa in Ethiopia by the end of September 2023 will have it integrated with more banks.

mobile payments, product launch, expansion, financial inclusion, cashless

Amazon faces lawsuit over alleged biometric tracking

News | Digital Identity, Security & Online Fraud | 20 Mar 2023

US-based multinational technology company Amazon has faced a lawsuit over alleged biometric tracking on the Go stores based in New York City.

regulation, compliance, biometrics, biometric authentication, digital verification, identity verification

M-PESA partners Amazon to boost global remittance market

News | Online Payments | 20 Feb 2023

African mobile money app, M-PESA, has signed a new strategic partnership with fintech giant Amazon, tackling global remittances market’s multi-trillion dollar surge.

money transfer, money remittance, online platform, expansion, partnership, public listing, cross-border payments, fintech, payment processing, online payments

Vodacom Tanzania, DSTV launch MyDStv app on M-Pesa

News | Mobile Payments | 21 Nov 2022

Vodacom Tanzania has partnered with DSTV Tanzania to enable DSTV customers to access the MyDStv app within the M-Pesa app.

partnership, payments , mobile payments, super app, omnichannel, ecommerce platform, digitalisation, financial inclusion

Tencent leads a USD 48 million Series B for payments gateway startup Ozow

News | Mobile Payments | 19 Nov 2021

South Africa-based payment gateway startup Ozow has raised a successful Series B investment round with China-based fintech Tencent being the main investor.

investment, startup, payment gateway, fintech, payment processing, expansion, mobile payments

Vodacom's superapp Vodapay launches in South Africa

News | Ecommerce | 19 Oct 2021

South Africa-based VodaPay, Vodacom Financial and Digital Services' super app, has launched digital shopping, lifestyle, and financial platform for both consumers and businesses.

product launch, super app, ecommerce, e-wallet

Vodacom Tanzania expands M-Pesa transfers in East Africa

News | Online Payments | 17 Sep 2021

Vodacom Tanzania has announced it now allows for direct money transfers from M-Pesa to bank accounts in the East African countries of Kenya, Uganda, Burundi and Rwanda and other mobile wallets.

product launch, online payments, cashless

Vodacom to launch super app Vodapay in South Africa

News | Mobile Payments | 24 May 2021

Vodacom has announced the launch of its super app Vodapay, in South Africa.

product launch, super app, e-wallet, mobile payments

Vodacom introduces voice biometrics authentication service

News | Digital Identity, Security & Online Fraud | 24 May 2021

Vodacom Tanzania has launched ‘SautiPass’ – a voice biometrics feature that enables customers to use their voice as a password for authentication to access critical services.

biometrics, biometric authentication, digital identity, identity verification

Nium assists customers to remit funds into four major African markets

News | Mobile Payments | 09 Mar 2021

Nium, a global payments platform, has announced that its clients are able to send funds to their business partners located in Ghana, Kenya, South Africa, and Tanzania.

mobile money, money transfer, remittances, e-wallet

Vodacom Tanzania opens its M-Pesa API's to developers to streamline mobile payments

News | Mobile Payments | 02 Oct 2020

Vodacom Tanzania has announced the opening of its M-Pesa API in a move set to entice local and international developers into creating new use cases for the mobile payments service.

Vodacom Tanzania, M-Pesa, API, mobile transactions, cashless payments

Vodacom teams up with China's Alipay in mobile payments push

News | Mobile Payments | 21 Jul 2020

Mobile operator Vodacom has announced it will aggregate different merchants and service providers such as Alipay so that users can do all their business online.

Alipay, China, Vodacom, ecommerce, WeChat, competition commission, Telecom, telco, Asia, APAC

Vodacom M-Pesa goes global

News | Mobile Payments | 17 Jun 2020

Vodacom M-Pesa, a Tanzania-based mobile money service provider, has announced the expansion of its International Money Transfer service portfolio.

Vodacom M-Pesa, Tanzania, mobile payments, mobile money, Africa, remittances, Bank of Tanzania

Vodafone completes the sale of M-Pesa to Safaricom and Vodacom

News | Mobile Payments | 16 Apr 2020

Mobile network operator Safaricom and mobile communications company Vodacom have completed the acquisition of mobile money platform M-Pesa from Vodafone.

Vodafone, M-Pesa, Safaricom, Vodacom, mobile network, transactions , Kenya, mobile money, loans, banks, merchant, payments

East Africa - the heart of mobile money. What is next?

Voice of the Industry | Expert Opinion | 03 Jul 2019

Rick Groothuizen of ClickPesa outlines the status of financial digitalization in East Africa and the progress that has been made in this emerging market

Africa, emerging market, mobile money, financial inclusion, SMEs, ClickPesa, mobile wallets

Safaricom, Vodacom plan USD 13 mln purchase of M-Pesa rights

News | Payments General | 24 May 2019

Safaricom has announced that it will start a joint venture with Vodacom to acquire the intellectual property rights to M-Pesa mobile financial services platform from Vodafone.

Safaricom, Vodacom, M-Pesa, Africa, mobile payments

Mastercard, Vodacom partner to introduce online cards in Tanzania

News | Cards | 14 Sep 2018

Mastercard has teamed up with Vodacom to introduce the first online card in Tanzania, the M-Pesa virtual card.

MasterCard, Vodacom, partnership, online card, Tanzania, M-Pesa, virtual card, mobile wallet, cards

Huawei, Xpress Money partner for mobile payments in Africa

News | Mobile Payments | 14 Dec 2017

Xpress Money and Huawei have partnered for mobile money services for Africa’s unbanked population.

Huawei, Xpress Money, mobile payments, Africa, remittance

TerraPay, Instant Cash to launch cross-border money transfers to mobile wallets

News | Mobile Payments | 22 Aug 2017

TerraPay and Instant Cash have teamed up to enable real-time cross border money transfers to mobile wallets in Tanzania, Uganda and Nigeria.

TerraPay, Instant Cash, cross-border money transfers, mobile wallets, Africa, Vodacom M-Pesa, Tigo Pesa, Airtel Money