M-PESA Go is a specialized mobile money features service by Safaricom that allows parents to be in charge of monitoring the ...

The number of active M-Pesa customers in Ethiopia grew 258.5 percent year-on-year to 5.2 million in the quarter to December 2025, boosting Safaricom’s performance in the new market, supported by ...

Vodacom Tanzania says it has modernised its M-Pesa platform via a US$28 million strategic investment to make its mobile money service more reliable and secure.

Visa and Safaricom launch a virtual card to let M-Pesa users transact over Visa's network. Digital payments are quickly replacing cash in Africa—making the region an attractive destination for digital ...

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 ...

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 ...

In African fintech, the fourth quarter of 2019 brought big money to new entrants. Chinese investors put $220 million into OPay and PalmPay — two fledgling startups with plans to scale in Nigeria and ...

Consumer choices of goods and services will be embedded into the M-Pesa app in the new product, Lopokoiyit says. The offer, planned within the next 12 months, will probably be launched first in Kenya ...

The M-Pesa Foundation has opened applications for its 2026 scholarship programme, inviting bright and needy Kenyan students ...

"All M-Pesa services are now available. We apologise for any inconveniences caused, and thank you for your patience as we worked to restore them," the firm said. This followed hours of inactivity on ...