M-Pesa
Examining M-Pesa’s transformative role in mobile banking and economic change in emerging markets.
- News
Safaricom and Huawei testing new ‘Scan & Order’ Tool for Restaurants
Safaricom and Huawei are working on Scan and Order tool for Kenyan restaurants with numerous benefits promised to restaurants
- News
The New M-Pesa App to be ‘launched officially’ this month
Safaricom to launch the new M-Pesa app this month. The company will be bringing in new features to make it…
- News
Amazon to integrate M-Pesa payments; but for who?
Safaricom's M-Pesa may soon become a payment option on Amazon the same way we saw it come to AliExpress in…
- News
Safaricom Full Year Results: M-Pesa revenue drops, Net income down by 6.8%
Safaricom Full Year Results show a drop in M-Pesa Revenue, and Net income reduction. Meanwhile monthly active users grew while…
- Quick Reviews
M-Shwari is now available on the NEW M-Pesa App
M-Shwari is now available on the new M-Pesa app. You can find it under the Growth Tab. And you get…
- News
Users can now Request Money from Others using NEW M-Pesa App
With the new M-Pesa app, Safaricom changed the approach to its mobile money platform introducing new features, a new data-first…
- Interesting Reads
M-Pesa is Expensive, Bank to Mobile Transfers are Free
M-Pesa is still very expensive especially for micro-transactions. For example, someone sending KES. 20,000 pays KES. 102, which is 0.51%…
- News
HELB launches App to help pay and access Loans using M-Pesa
Students can access the system through HELB USSD and the mobile app once completed from where they will be able…
- News
Spotify is finally launching in Kenya; How will it affect the Music Scene?
Spotify has been doing app tests with a section of users in Kenya and Tanzania over the past few weeks.…
- Announcements
Safaricom says it has added 400 more Matatus in Nairobi to its Cashless Fare Program
The service is powered by Simple Fare, a mobile and financial integration technology developed by Netcen Interactives. Simple Fare enables…
- Full Reviews
The New M-PESA App is really good!
The new M-PESA app is a whole new experience with focus on data. You can see your daily average spend,…
- News
Safaricom’s “Bill Manager” Website Helps Businesses Easily Automate and Reconcile Payments
All payments received through M-PESA are instantly reconciled on the Bill Manager platform, which also provides an option to manually…
- News
M-Pesa charges reduced effective 1st Jan 2021; Here are the new charges
Safaricom has announced it will be reducing M-Pesa transaction charges effective 1st January 2021. This will come immediately after the…
- News
It’s back to normal for transactions below KES. 1,000 starting January 2021
The Central Bank of Kenya has announced the end of free transactions below KES. 1,000 - a measure that was…
- Announcements
Residents in Kwale to benefit from Nyalani Dam water project by M-PESA Foundation
The M-PESA Foundation and the Kwale County Government in 2014 implemented an integrated disaster risk reduction project which would address…
