Mobile money services provider, Airtel Money, revised its money transfer and withdrawal transaction charges on October 25, 2023.
Sending money to other Airte...
Airtel Money Kenya customers can seamlessly pay for eCitizen services, because of the integration of Airtel Money with the eCitizen platform.
Customers enjoy...
Vodafone and Microsoft have announced a 10 year strategic partnership that will see them partner across different areas of their businesses.
One aspect of th...
Airtel Networks Kenya Limited has announced that it is rolling out additional 100 5G sites across the country before the end of the year.
The move is in a qu...
Safaricom has increased M-PESA transactions limit to KSh. 250,000 for each transaction up from Ksh. 150,000.
The move will see the addition of a new transact...
Safaricom has increased M-PESA account limits to KSh. 500,000, this follows approval by the Central Bank of Kenya. The higher account limit will be effective as...
Safaricom's mobile money service, M-PESA, has announced a KSh. 26.8 million sponsorship for the third edition of the Magical Kenya Ladies Golf Open. The tournam...
Pay With Equity (PWE), Equity’s digital payment platform, is now the lender’s fastest-growing digital channel. The platform enables mobile subscribers to pay fo...
The Directorate of Immigration Services has announced that old Kenyan passports will not be operational after November 30, 2022.
This is the fifth time that ...
Telkom, Safaricom, and Airtel, have announced that Kenyans can now make direct mobile money payments to an M-PESA Pay Bill Number from any network.
This move f...
Safaricom has announced that M-PESA now has over 30 million customers using the mobile money service every month in Kenya.
The milestone comes a few days aft...
M-PESA is celebrating 15 years since Safaricom and Vodafone launched the service in March 2007.
From its beginning in Kenya, M-PESA has grown to more than 5...
Kenya, an East African nation with a population of 53 million, and a socio-political and economic hub of the region, is a bastion of many firsts. Here are some ...
Safaricom has partnered with the National Hospital Insurance Fund (NHIF) to launch the NHIF mini-app within the M-PESA Super App.
The NHIF mini-app will prov...
When night-time falls in the poor areas of Nairobi, small flames are what you’ll see licking blackened cooking pots as dinner for the family is prepared over ch...
Mobile operator Vodafone Group in a trading update for its Q1 fiscal report has registered a strong growth in Africa. Driven by its financial platform M-PESA, t...
Safaricom has partnered with Trans Nzoia County Government to launch an M-PESA cashless payment system for County levy collection. Residents of Trans Nzoia Coun...
Safaricom and Huawei have announced their trial of an innovative new solution for restaurants, dubbed Scan & Order. This solution was developed to help rest...
Telecommunication company Safaricom has reported a reduced Ksh. 68B profit after tax for the year ended 31st march 2021. This is a reduction from the Ksh. 74 bi...
Vodacom Tanzania has partnered with East African insurance group, Britam, to launch VodaBima. VodaBima is a micro insurance platform accessible on Vodacom’s M-P...
The Kenyan Government has announced the extension of the deadline to stop the use of the old Kenyan passports by a further 10 months until December 31st 2021.
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Safaricom, in December 2020, announced new charges for money transfers below Ksh. 2,500 on M-PESA, effective 1st January 2021. Charges for money transfers over ...
Technological advancement has seen the rise of cashless transactions something which has really taken off during the Covid-19 pandemic as people were discourage...
M-PESA has become the first mobile money provider in Africa to join the Financial Taskforce established by United for Wildlife, a coalition of charities that wo...
Safaricom and Vodacom have announced that they have completed the acquisition of the M-PESA brand, product development and support services from Vodafone throug...
Safaricom and the National Social Security Fund (NSSF) have announced a partnership that will customers on the NSSF Tenant Purchase Scheme make monthly installm...
Safaricom has announced that it has suspends charges for M-PESA transactions below Ksh. 1,000 in response to the Coronavirus crisis in Kenya. Kenya currently ha...
The Kenyan Government has today announced that you need to book a appointment to be able to submit your application for a new Kenyan passport.
Kenyans applyi...
The Kenyan Government has today announced that it has extended the deadline for use of the old Kenyan passport as a travel document to March 2020. The previous ...
Safaricom has announced that it is planning to expand its e-commerce platform Masoko to other countries in Sub-Saharan Africa by year 2020. This is on the back...
The Kenyan Embassy in Washington DC has announced that Kenyans in the US and Mexico can now be able to apply for the new Kenyan passport at their premises. The ...
Safaricom launched Lipa na M-Pesa in 2013 to enable merchants to be able to accept payments via their popular mobile payments platform, M-Pesa. The launch broug...
The Kenyan government has opened four new Immigration centres in the country where Kenyans can be able to apply for the new Kenyan passport.
The new centres ...
The new Kenyan passport was introduced by the Immigration department in August 2017. It features a chip that contains a person's bio data. The old Kenyan passpo...
Safaricom has today announced a net profit of Ksh. 63.4 Billion for the year ended 31st March 2019. This represents a 14.7% rise from last year’s net which was ...
The Kenyan Government, through the Immigration Department, introduced new rules requiring Kenyans wishing to apply, renew or replace a Kenyan passport to start ...
The process of getting a Kenyan passport can be simple or it can be a crash course in the workings of the Kenyan immigration bureaucracy. If you’d like the proc...