By Farouk Mark Mukiibi Some corporate transactions announce themselves with fanfare. Others slip through quietly, their true significance buried in regulatory filings and footnotes. The Safaricom-Vodacom...
Kenyan mobile operator, Safaricom and the Kenya Bankers Association (KBA) have proposed making Pesalink Kenya’s next-generation fast payment system (FPS), advocating for an industry-led approach to...
Kenya’s wireless provider, Safaricom has launched MPESA Ratiba, a groundbreaking feature on its M-PESA mobile money platform that enables users to set up standing orders directly...
A remarkable 59 percent of Kenya’s gross domestic product (GDP) is processed through M-PESA, the country’s leading mobile payment system. This translated into 20 billion transactions...
Reuters | Safaricom’s M-Pesa mobile money service went live in Ethiopia on Wednesday, in a boost to the Kenyan telecoms operator as it seeks to kickstart...
Uber and Safaricom have partnered to ease payment of trips by riders across Kenya through M-Pesa. This follows an earlier deal between the wireless carrier and...
Press Release | Safaricom shareholders have approved two new subsidiaries, one dedicated to investing in seed-stage and another on growth-stage start-ups. These significant developments, approved at...
AFP | Ethiopia’s central bank said on Thursday it had issued a mobile money licence to Kenyan telecoms giant Safaricom, the first granted to a foreign...
Kenyan banks, increasingly embattled by mobile money providers, are looking to wrestle control from industry leader M-Pesa
Reuters | Ethiopia’s government has decided to open up the country’s banking sector to foreign investors, the prime minister’s office said on Saturday, the latest measure...
Reuters | State-owned operator Ethio Telecom launched a 5G mobile phone service on Monday in a key step ahead of competition from new entrants in an...
Bloomberg | Safaricom Plc., first-half profit jumped as the company reinstated charges on mobile-money transfers, Chief Executive Officer Peter Ndegwa told investors Wednesday. Africa’s second-biggest company...
Kenya’s leading wireless operator, Safaricom, has cut roaming charges for subscribers travelling to 21 countries across the world, giving them much needed relief from the usually...
Vodafone’s hold on the African telecoms market is facing a new challenge from rivals seeking to compete directly with its dominant M-Pesa mobile money platform. Three Tanzanian...
Public service vehicles in Kenya will from July be expected to implement an electronic payment system, according to a government gazette. As per the Operation of...
Kenya’s shilling hovered below the 88 per dollar level on Thursday with market participants reluctant to push the currency to weaker levels. This is after the...
A move by the Kenya communication regulator to license three mobile virtual network operators (MNVO) – that don’t own their own communication infrastructure – is expected...
Safaricom, Kenya’s biggest telecoms operator, expects its free cash flow to rise by 10-17 percent in its financial year ending next March. This will be driven...
As young pitchmen shout to potential passengers over blaring music, a graffiti-covered private minibus fills up more quickly than the other dozen in the scrum. It...
The rivalry between Kenya’s top two telecommunications companies, Safaricom and Airtel may finally come to an end if the stringent conditions set by sector regulator,...
A wind of change is sweeping across Kenya’s telecom sector. This is due to reports that Orange Group, the majority owner of Telkom Kenya, just like...
Pursuant to amendments to the Customs & Excise Duty Act (Kenya) gazetted on 1st February 2012, leading integrated communications service provider Safaricom has effected an upward...
Bob Collymore., CEO of mobile operator Safaricom (Kenya). PHOTO/File A profile of Guyana native, Bob Collymore; the CEO of East Africa’s largest mobile operator, Safaricom. What...
Give Africans a piece of technology and watch them invent a thousand uses for it. This idea was of course exaggerated for laughs in the 1980...
App developers at work in Nairobi, Kenya. PHOTO/File There aren’t too many apps out there that are designed specifically for the African market. But who better...
(Reuters) – Vodacom Tanzania, part of South Africa’s Vodacom Group, said on Friday it had boosted total users by a third last year and will spend...
(Business Daily Africa) – Four in five new cell phone subscribers in Kenya are signing up for money transfer services, the latest industry data shows. The...
Sixteen teams from across the world have confirmed participation in the 16th edition of the Safaricom 7s Rugby Series scheduled for November 4-6 in Nairobi. The...
A branch of Ecobank in Nairobi, Kenya. As the aircraft floats across the landscape of West Africa, one notices ruler-straight earth roads stretching as far as...
Safaricom subscribers can now search for and reconnect with their loved ones using their mobile phone via an application provided by Ericsson and Refugees United. The...
