Visa and Safaricom launch a virtual card to let M-Pesa users transact over Visa's network. Digital payments are quickly replacing cash in Africa—making the region an attractive destination for digital ...

M-Pesa, the mobile phone-based African money transfer service owned by Kenya's Safaricom Plc, and Visa Inc launched a virtual payment card on Thursday in a bid to capture some of the continent's $40 ...

Global digital payments giant Visa and East Africa’s biggest telecom Safaricom, the operator of the M-Pesa mobile money product, have today launched a virtual card, enabling millions of M-Pesa users ...

Visa, is the world's largest payments network but has been outshone in Kenya by telco Safaricom and its hugely successful M-Pesa. The card scheme hopes to change this with the new service, stressing ...

Safaricom revealed a tie-up with global transaction giant Visa on developing digital payment services for the operator’s m-Pesa platform and expanding e-commerce options for merchants. In a statement, ...

For the best experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings. NAIROBI: Global payments firm, Visa, has launched a mobile payment solution in a move set ...

Safaricom, a Kenya-based telecom company and operator of M-Pesa, announced last week it has formed a new partnership with Visa (NYSE: V) to enable the development of products that will support digital ...

It seems the demand for Safaricom’s M-Pesa payment product never eases. Since its 2007 launch in Kenya, the fintech app has commanded over 70% of the mobile money market in that country. When COVID-19 ...

Visa just connected to Africa’s most powerful mobile payments network. The global financial services company and Kenyan telecom Safaricom — operator of the M-Pesa mobile money product — announced a ...

NAIROBI: Global payments firm, Visa, has launched a mobile payment solution in a move set to stir competition in the lucrative cash transfer industry currently dominated by Safaricom's M-Pesa. The ...