What You Need to Know About Faraja, The Buy Now Pay Later Service for Lipa Na M-Pesa
July 27, 2023
Safaricom has today announced a new partnership with EDOMx that has seen the launch of Faraja. With this new service, businesses on Lipa Na M-Pesa will be able to offer “Buy Now Pay Later” (BNPL) …
Remittances and the Potential Impact on M-Pesa
July 24, 2023
Last week, Safaricom announced a strategic partnership with TerraPay (Mobex Kenya). This collaboration aims to enable over 32 million M-Pesa customers to send and receive money to more than 200 million people in Bangladesh and…
Safaricom's M-PESA Mini App Has Potential to Expand Market Reach for Shop Zetu
June 29, 2023
In the ever-changing e-commerce market, partnerships play a crucial role in driving growth and delivering exceptional customer experiences. One such successful collaboration is between Shop Zetu, an online fashion marketplace. This partnership has changed the…
HELB Beneficiaries to Receive Loans Directly to M-PESA Accounts
April 28, 2023
Safaricom has partnered with the Higher Education Loans Board (HELB) to launch the HELB Mobile Wallet and HELB M-PESA Mini App. This partnership will enable all HELB beneficiaries to receive the upkeep portion of their…
M-Pesa Set to Be separated from Safaricom as soon as January 2023
September 26, 2022
Over the last few years, there has been debate on the separation of M-Pesa from Safaricom’s core business. The arguments for both sides have been valid but Safaricom hasn’t been keen to embrace this. There…
M-Pesa Monthly Active Users Reach 30 million
March 10, 2022
Last month, Safaricom revealed that its mobile money app, M-pesa, has been downloaded over 5 million times. This is a massive number which makes it the most downloaded Kenyan app at the moment. With this…
M-Pesa at 15: 5 Key Milestones Achieved by M-Pesa in the Last 15 Years
March 7, 2022
M-Pesa first came into the picture in March 2007 as the first mobile money wallet in Kenya. Over the years, the service has cemented its presence in Kenya’s financial sector with millions of transactions every…
M-TIBA Partners with Private Hospitals To Provide Healthcare providers With Healthcare Financing
February 21, 2022
M-TIBA has partnered with the Kenya Association of Private Hospitals (KAPH) in a bid to expand their healthcare financing capabilities through provision of financing healthcare systems. The overall purpose is to utilize the M-Tiba platform…
M-PESA Super App Tops 5 million total downloads
January 31, 2022
Safaricom introduced the M-Pesa Super App back in 2020. This app is meant to complement the existing mySafaricom app and is for those who just want to conduct M-Pesa transactions. The app has grown in…