In 11 countries around the world, some 30 million people use a mobile money service that is transforming how people handle their finances. It's called M-Pesa, and it has lifted hundreds of thousands ...

Visa, M-PESA Africa and Onafriq have partnered to pilot stablecoin-enabled cross-border mobile money transactions in the ...

Safaricom has shared the USSD code that eligible M-PESA customers can use to request a higher Fuliza limit. The telco ...

Tando is making it possible for 40 million Kenyans to send and receive bitcoin using their phone numbers via Mpesa and over ...

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 ...

Kenya’s M-Pesa is making a comeback in South Africa after failed attempts four years ago. During its initial launch it had only a million subscribers and had to be shut down. This is what happens when ...

Executive Summary: In 2007, M-Pesa started in Kenya as a CSR pilot project by Safaricom, a Vodafone subsidiary, to transfer money over mobile because it was unsafe to carry cash. But soon it changed ...