Mobile Remittance

Ecobank Nigeria and the Ekiti State government have commenced the disbursement of funds to over 2,250 residents earmarked in the State as the first set of beneficiaries of the Federal Government Conditional Cash Transfer...

The GSMA’s Mobile Money for the Unbanked (MMU) programme released its third annual Mobile Financial Services State of the Industry Report, providing a quantitative assessment of the state of mobile financial services, including mobile...

Oberthur Technologies has partnered with Utiba to create a complementary suite of secured Mobile Money Services and Money Transfer Solutions to mobile operators and financial institutions. This offer combines Oberthur Technologies' SIM OTA server, SIM...

Mobile money usage in Uganda tripled last year, with the number of users surpassing those of bank account holders. Charles Abuka, director for financial stability at the Bank of Uganda, said the number of...

Kenyans will nowy be able to send and receive money to the UK through Safaricom's M-pesa in the company's first commercial cross-border transfer service whose details will be announced later this week. The move opens...

Early Warning, a real-time payments provider, has signed an agreement with Visa to enable person-to-person (P2P) payments on its clearXchange network using US-issued debit cards through the Visa Direct platform, it will leverage Mastercard Send for Mastercard...

WorldRemit has added Android Pay to its service, offering a new way for WorldRemit’s Android Pay users to send money internationally and reach millions using mobile money accounts. Launching the global rollout of the mobile-first approach to...

Online money transfer service WorldRemit and telecoms operator MTN have signed a global mobile money partnership that will enable WorldRemit customers to send remittances instantly to MTN’s customers. The agreement extends WorldRemit’s position as the...

Mobile network Vodacom South Africa is considering various options for its sluggish mobile money transfer service M-Pesa. M-Pesa enables customers - particularly unbanked users - to transfer money from person-to-person using mobile phone and text-messaging...

Fundamo has been selected by Monet, an independent mobile financial services company, to launch a mobile money network in Pakistan. The platform, now approved by the State Bank of Pakistan, will be able to...