Tag: M-Pesa
M-Pesa accounts for 50% of Safaricom’s $900 million profit
Safaricom’s latest annual report shows that M-Pesa accounted for half of the company's profit before tax, outperforming voice and data.
Per the report, M-Pesa generated...
Visa, M-Pesa partner in global payments deal, coming to Ghana next...
Visa has partnered with Kenya-based mobile money platform M-Pesa (owned by telecom giant Safaricom) to launch the M-Pesa GlobalPay virtual Visa card, to enable...
M-PESA goes international
The partnership between Safaricom and Visa has given birth to a new card virtual that allows payments across borders.
The collaboration had earlier developed...
Kenya’s Safaricom mulls turning M-Pesa business into a subsidiary
Kenya's biggest telecoms operator Safaricom is considering turning its M-Pesa mobile financial services business into a subsidiary, its chairman has said.
M-Pesa, which was launched...
Embattled Ato Essien claims Mobile Money was his idea
The embattled CEO of the defunct Capital Bank, William Ato Essien who is facing criminal charges over his alleged misapplication of some GHS620 million...
Vodafone’s free MoMo transfer pays off, as V-Cash takes number 2...
For many years now, the custodians of mobile money statistics in Ghana have stopped publishing market share figures, but a very reliable source within...
Digital wallet transactions equals 82% of Ghana’s 2020 GDP – Report
A new study by US-based research firm, Boston Consulting Group (BCG) indicates the value of mobile wallet and other digital finance transactions accounted for...