Flutterwave, Africa’s leading payments technology company, announced a mobile money partnership with Africa’s largest telecommunications provider, MTN Group. This partnership will allow businesses integrating Flutterwave in Cameroon, Côte d’Ivoire, Rwanda, Uganda and Zambia to receive payments via MTN Mobile Money (MoMo). MTN MoMo is a fintech platform providing consumers and businesses with an electronic wallet, [...]
UNITEL launched this week a digital money service “UNITEL Money” in Angola. The service allows users to make deposit, withdrawal, transfer and payment via mobile phone, without needing a bank account.The technology platform used by UNITEL is powered by Huawei, with whom the company has been cooperating over the past couple of years. “The project [...]
Ethiopia has cleared the path for Safaricom-led consortium to launch its popular M-Pesa in the Ethiopian market after deciding to include the mobile phone-based financial services in the telco’s license offered in May. According to the Business Daily Africa website, the Ethiopian authorities have stated that the license – making the consortium the first new [...]
Waafi is considered as one of Somalia’s major telecom company’s mobile money applications that brings quick impact when it comes to ease access to manage mobile money and other related financial services all in one app. The Waafi app combines mobile money, communication, entertainment, and payments where consumers can access bank accounts, perform online transactions, [...]
MFS Africa describes itself as Africa’s largest payment gateway. The company has announced its entry into Sierra Leone, partnering with Afrimoney, the mobile money service offered by pan-African telecommunications company Africell. The goal will be to enable mobile money users in the country to receive payments from abroad smoothly and affordably. As explained by MFS, [...]
The government-owned telecom service provider, Zamtel, has collaborated with Mastercard that will allow Zamtel Mobile Money customers to make safe and seamless digital payments on the Mastercard network including international e-commerce transactions. The customer will obtain a physical Mastercard debit card linked to Zamtel Mobile Money wallet while making payments on stores and outlets can [...]
Orange Egypt has announced its new partnership with National Bank Egypt to manage the services of Orange Cash in order to boost Orange’s customer experience. This partnership will help customers to access the most secured and innovative services by offering new attractive offers that utilize the National Bank of Egypt’s service range and capabilities across [...]
Telkom has launched a Mastercard virtual card for use on WhatsApp, enabling Telkom Pay customers to make e-commerce payments. The digital payment service, Telkom Pay was launched in 2020 and has enabled users to make and receive payments via WhatsApp. With the addition of the Mastercard virtual card to the wallet, users can now make [...]
Safaricom announced the launch its Super App which comes with offline mode and a mini-app functionality. The app had a soft launch last September and Safaricom has been testing the app with over 1 million customers in Kenya. With the M-Pesa Super App, customers can use the M-Pesa service and complete transactions by sending and [...]
Telkom has launched Africa’s first virtual card for transacting on WhatsApp, enabling Telkom Pay customers to make e-commerce payments in South Africa. This move, says Telkom, is expected to enable millions of South Africans – even those without a bank account – to access the digital economy and transact online. Launched in 2020, Telkom Pay [...]
