We have all at one point in time been in a situation where we needed some cash to sort out something urgently. The quickest source of this cash is family and fr...
NIC Bank in Kenya now offers loans to its customers via its mobile banking service. The loan is available via the NIC NOW App and also via USSD.
To get a loa...
Safaricom has indicated that their mobile agriculture platform DigiFarm is projected to outgrow Mpesa in the next five years.
The platform which was launched...
Mobile loan service Tala has celebrated 5 years of existence having first launched in the Kenyan market in 2014.
The loan service was initially known as Mkop...
We have all at one point in time been in a situation where we needed some cash to sort out something urgently. The quickest source of this cash is family and fr...
MCo-op Cash is a product of the Co-operative Bank of Kenya (Co-op Bank). It is a service that allows Co-op Bank customers to access banking services and also lo...
General Electric Healthcare (GE) has partnered with Medical Credit Fund (MCF) part of the PharmAccess group to enable small and medium private healthcare provid...
Safaricom has stated that the cashless system that has been adopted by the county governments has led to diminished leakages and boosted revenue by up to 30%. T...
The National Social Security Fund (NSSF) has announced a partnership with Safaricom in which members will be able to pay for their contributions via Mpesa. This...
Ever been in a situation where you need to pay for parking but don’t have coins or notes in small denominations? Or had an old note that the machine kept reject...
Just a few days after Safaricom launched Fuliza, it has caught on so well that it exceeded the telco's expectations. In just 8 days, it managed to acquire over...
Ever been in a situation whereby you bought say groceries in the supermarket but when It came time to pay via Mpesa, you get that annoying insufficient balance ...
MCo-op Cash is a product of the Co-operative Bank of Kenya (Co-op Bank). It is a service that allows Co-op Bank customers to access bank services and also loans...
Safaricom recently announced the introduction of Fuliza, an M-Pesa overdraft facility for its customers, which is in partnership with Commercial Bank of Africa ...
Branch is a loan app by Branch international. The company describes itself as a for profit socially conscious company based in San Francisco and Nairobi.
To ...
KCB Mpesa is a partnership between Kenya Commercial Bank (KCB) and Safaricom. It is a virtual mobile based bank account that allows customers to borrow micro lo...
Safaricom announced the introduction of Fuliza, an M-Pesa overdraft facility for its customers, at the announcement of their half year results.
Fuliza will e...
Tala, formerly Mkopo Rahisi, is a product of Inventure which was founded by Shivani Siroya who is also the current CEO. The service gives loans of upto Ksh. 50,...
In case you are wondering what happens to a deceased person's MPESA balance, we came upon the procedure to claim the same. Safaricom requires that the next of k...
When Housing Finance launched their HF Whizz app last week, I thought to myself here goes another banking app. However, the app has actually made an impression ...
Housing Finance yesterday launched their digital financial services platform aptly named HF Whizz. The company which started out as a mortgage company some 52 y...
Corruption has become so pervasive in our country that one often feels the urge to just pack up and go. However, if we all left who would be left to right the w...
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....
With the advent of technology, consumers are looking for convenience and efficiency while interacting with a product. This has seen many businesses move to the ...
It is often said that the one can only be sure of two things, death and taxes. Well, I would like to add one more that is a sure thing for any mortal. Falling s...
Safaricom has today launched a new payment proposition called Mpesa 1 Tap. M-pesa 1 Tap reduces the number of steps a customer requires to make Lipa Na M-pesa...
Safaricom has today announced their results for the year ended 31st March 2017 and as usual they have not disappointed having posted a net income of Ksh. 48.4 B...
Imagine if you were among the last surviving members of your species and also the last male. Also imagine if due to your old age you had no way of furthering yo...
The M-Pesa Foundation Academy is now taking applications for its 2018 class. The institution is a state-of-the-art co-educational and residential 8-4-4 secondar...
Commercial Bank of Africa (CBA) released their full year 2016 results yesterday in which the bank realized an 87% increase in profits from Ksh. 3.5 Billion in 2...
M-pesa yesterday marked 10 years since it was launched on 6th March 2007. To some of us it feels like it has been around forever. A true earnings report done by...
Some time back there was furor on Social Media when people came to learn that the Lipa na M-pesa service had hidden charges. The bone of contention was that Saf...
Safaricom last week announced their results for the period ended 30th September 2016 and as always they posted impressive results. This saw their net income inc...
We have all at one point in time been in a situation where we needed some cash to sort out something urgently. The quickest source of this cash is family and fr...
Since its launch in 2007, M-Pesa had grown into a force in money transfer in Kenya. Since it's launch it has pivoted from just being a money transfer service in...
To say that Safaricom has permeated every sector of our lives is an understatement. It has become such a part of most Kenyan’s lives that some can’t function wi...
Safaricom has today launched BLAZE a communication and empowerment platform designed for the Kenyan youth. If you are like me who has been wondering what the BL...
Safaricom yesterday announced the availability of its new interactive app named MySafaricom app for Android and iOS. The app will enable the 7.8 million smartph...
The fact that Safaricom is East and Central Africa’s largest corporation was undisputed yesterday as the company released its results for the year ended 201. Th...
In previous articles, we have tackled what exactly is Rental Income Tax and how to compute the tax. In this post we will focus on how to file the tax after comp...
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...