Tag: M-Pesa

As an Airtel user, you do not need to look for a physical airtime scratch card to top up. You ...

Kenya’s biggest mobile money platform, M-Pesa, is set to increase its transaction charges if Kenyan Members of Parliament (MPs) approve ...

Safaricom has updated My OneApp to stay logged in even when users switch to Airtel Kenya or other non-Safaricom networks. ...

When Safaricom waived charges on small M-PESA transactions during COVID-19, the intent was partly practical: get money moving when people ...

Treasury wants to slap a 16% VAT on the country's 42 licensed payment service providers, a list that includes M-Pesa, ...

The Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA) has moved to calm nerves over its mobile money monitoring plans, making clear that it ...

In the past 7 years, the average amount Kenyans borrow from Fuliza has decreased by KES 404.8, which represents a ...

The number of Kenyans needing card-based international payments is growing. This is evidenced by 62.1% growth in M-Pesa Visa card ...

The audited results of Safaricom for the financial year ended March 31, 2026, show a company firing on most cylinders ...

Safaricom has issued a public apology today for the troubled rollout of My OneApp, acknowledging that a significant number of ...

Safaricom launched My OneApp with a simple pitch: to stop making people juggle two apps. The old M-PESA app handled ...

Kenya closed out 2025 with its digital economy accelerating at pace, based on new data from the Communications Authority of ...

At the end of December 2025, Kenya had 78.3 million mobile phones connected to its networks. Of those, 48,726,982 were ...

By the end of December 2025, Kenya had 51,356,425 mobile money subscriptions. That represents a 5.6% increase from the 48,630,797 ...

Every year when Kenya's largest banks release their full-year financial results, they are essentially bringing home their report cards. In ...

The story of M-Pesa is frequently told as a story of genius mobile money design. The reality is more interesting: ...

When reports emerged in early March that Safaricom would begin masking phone numbers in M-PESA transaction notifications, the details were ...

M-Pesa customers in Tanzania can now use their Android phones to tap and pay at any Visa-enabled point-of-sale terminal in ...

M-PESA launched on March 6, 2007, as a basic mobile money transfer service built by Safaricom. 19 years later, Safaricom ...

As every M-Pesa user has become accustomed to, paying at a till number or through Paybill means the merchant on ...

Kenya's financial system does not look the way it did a decade ago. Paying rent, settling utility bills, and even ...

Sitoyo Lopokoiyit, who serves as Managing Director of M-PESA Africa and Chief Financial Services Officer at Safaricom, was recently appointed ...

Social Health Authority (SHA), a Kenyan state corporation that manages the Social Health Insurance Fund (SHIF), has been deducting contributions ...

Ziidi Trader is a new mini-app inside M-PESA that lets you buy and sell shares on the Nairobi Securities Exchange ...

Absa Group is bringing in new blood at the executive level, hiring Sitoyo Lopokoiyit from Safaricom's M-PESA to run its ...

Twitter (or what the cool kids call "X") is not just a playground for keyboard warriors. Sometimes you get some ...

M-Shwari just overhauled how it tracks and recovers loans by implementing a system where your debt follows your National ID, ...

The Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA) has intensified its efforts to broaden the tax base, and this time it's targeting unexplained ...

Safaricom is launching Shiriki Pay, a new M-PESA feature that lets you give another person direct access to spend money ...

In a decision that resonates with how Kenya actually conducts business, the High Court just made it clear on an ...

Buying airtime for someone on a different mobile network in Kenya has always been unnecessarily expensive. If you're on Safaricom ...

The Kenyan government is in the final stages of selling 15% of its stake in Safaricom to South Africa's Vodacom ...

Starting next month, buying shares on the Nairobi Securities Exchange (NSE) will work the same way you pay for electricity ...

Safaricom's M-Pesa Ethiopia launched a new app called M-Pesa Lehulum on December 1 that works across any mobile network. Days ...

Vodafone is buying more control of Kenya's biggest telco, and the government needs the money. In what is shaping up ...