Safaricom is set to launch a privacy enhancement that will give users more control over their personal information during mobile money transactions, as M-Pesa marks its 19th anniversary this month.

Kenyans often see monthly deductions from their M-Pesa wallets, and for most people, the charges come from the M-Pesa GlobalPay virtual Visa card, which is commonly used to pay for international ...

Since launch, Safaricom data shows that the M-Pesa platform has handled 268,936 share purchase orders, representing 62.04 percent of the 433,498 total orders on the NSE between February 5 ...

Esther Muchemi, Kenya’s first M-Pesa agent, turned a small telecom shop into a business empire, helping pioneer a mobile money revolution used by 40 million people.

Safaricom, the mobile network operator behind M-Pesa has released an Application Programming Interface (API) for all developers who want to create solutions tied directly into their payment systems.

Kenya’s M-Pesa is making a comeback in South Africa after failed attempts four years ago. During its initial launch it had only a million subscribers and had to be shut down. This is what happens when ...