Over the next year, M-Pesa customers are predicted to borrow up to Ksh. 200 billion from Fuliza, the newly launched service by Safaricom. This will hopefully se...
Safaricom’s DigiFarm together with the Kenya Livestock Producers Association hosted an agribusiness trade fair and exhibition in Rachuonyo, Homabay County on Fr...
The new Kenyan Passport was announced in 2016 and was initially meant to be launched in December 2016 but the launch date was first moved to April 2017 and late...
Safaricom has today adjusted their M-Pesa charges. According to the company, the change was necessitated by the Finance Bill 2018 which raises the excise tax on...
You can now be able to top up your PayPal account via M-Pesa in Kenya.
To top up your account, you need to do the following:
1. Have a PayPal account.
2....
Safaricom’s have launched a Voice Biometrics system, known as Jitambulishe, that will allow customers to use their voices for authentication before accessing c...
Commercial Bank of Africa (CBA) and Safaricom today mark the 5th anniversary of M-Shwari. The mobile savings and lending platform has been in existence since 20...
Safaricom has announced the launch of M-PESA services for visually impaired customers.
The new service will mean that customers can now access the mobile mon...
Safaricom yesterday announced the availability of M-Pesa 1Tap in Nairobi, Mombasa, Kisumu, Eldoret and Nyeri. The service was first launched in Nakuru County in...
A recently published study on the long-run effects of mobile money on economic outcomes in Kenya provides some valuable insights that will benefit economic deve...
Mobile loans service Mkopo Rahisi has rebranded to Tala in Kenya. The service was launched in Kenya about 2 years ago. It is a product of Inventure which was fo...
Safaricom and Commercial Bank of Africa (CBA) has launched a consumer promotion for M-Shwari dubbed Stawisha Na M-Shwari. The promotion starts today and will en...
Safaricom CEO Bob Collymore has this morning Tweeted that the M-PESA service has a new menu. Apparently Safaricom customers will get the new menu automatically ...
It would be an understatement to say that M-PESA has made life easier. Sending and receiving money via even a feature phone is instant. Not only that, users can...
M-KOPA has launched a solar-powered 16 inch digital flat screen TV that is available to its clients via several payment plans.
M-KOPA customers who have f...
Safaricom have announced that their customers will now be able get their full M-PESA statements free of charge via email. Previously such statements were availa...
In a move aimed at boosting regional trade, Safaricom has partnered with MTN Rwanda to enable customers to make M-PESA transactions between Kenya and Rwanda. Th...
Safaricom has introduced a feature on M-PESA that will allow customers to confirm who they are sending money to. The feature went live in September and is acces...
The Kenyan government has announced that it will float a Government bond that will be offered exclusively to mobile money users. The initiative, dubbed as M-AKi...
The Kenyan Immigration Department introduced new rules in April requiring Kenyans wishing to apply, renew or replace a Kenyan passport to start the process on e...
On one of those long holidays, my boys and I decided to go on a road trip. I was duly elected as the designated driver being the most responsible of the bun...
Have you ever been in a situation where you urgently needed to pay for Government services but could not because there was a long queue at the bank or you w...
Safaricom has announced the launch of M-Ledger, an Android based application that provides subscribers on the company’s network with a simple and easy to ...
President Uhuru Kenyatta tops up his My 1963 card
Earlier in the year, the Kenyan government through the Ministry of Transport gave a directive to the publi...
Safaricom yesterday announced a revision of transaction charges on MPESA. They specifically reduced the sending fees between registered MPESA users. All oth...
Safaricom has decided to revise downwards the transaction charges for small amounts for their mobile money service M-PESA, a year after raising them. The transa...
Via Mulika Mwizi
Following amendments to the Customs & Excise Duty Act gazetted on 1st February 2012, Safaricom will raise tariffs for M-Pesa transa...