Mobile Money

Uganda National Roads Authority in partnership with MTN Mobile Money Uganda has launched a payment option for topping up the upesi card at the Kampala-Entebbe Expressway using Mobile Money. The Entebbe Expressway has a road toll fee system that requires payment to grant access for... Read More

Paga is a mobile payment platform that helps users carry out certain financial transactions like money transfer, utility bill payments, and more. Paga is a mobile phone-based platform such that anyone with a phone number can carry out financial transactions. In this post, we try... Read More

Mobile money and digital technology have created a whole range of new opportunities for customers and businesses. However, there's a flip side to these innovations as well —the darker side. You see, the criminal underworld/fraudsters have also benefitted from the explosion of digital tech and... Read More

There is no doubt that Safaricom's M-PESA is king when it comes to Mobile money in Kenya. Kenyans use the tool for everything from paying bills to paying for goods and services. Safaricom has today launched a new app that is set to help its... Read More

Your mobile money account is your money vault and for some people it's their only banking platform. According to Bank of Uganda(BoU), at least 22 million subscribers are currently registered for Mobile money and this figure is bound to go up. In Kenya, 48.76% of the share of Kenya’s GDP... Read More

The importance of mobile money can not be under estimated. This service has made the storage and transfer of money very easy. More so, it has made payment of bills and other services very convenient. With the growing use of Mobile Money, today we look... Read More

MTN Uganda has started the journey of opening up its Mobile Money API in order to enable innovation and catalyze digital financial services. Consequently, third parties will now be able to access the Mobile Money API. API stand for Application Programming Interface. By opening up... Read More

With effect from 1 July 2018, as according to the tax proposals contained in the Excise Duty Act of 2018, “A tax of 1 0.5 per cent of the value of the transaction will apply on mobile money transactions on receiving money, sending money, making payments... Read More

Safaricom earlier this week extended their tap-and-go payment platform, M-Pesa 1-tap to 5 more counties in addition to Nakuru where the platform has been on a pilot project for months now. The innovative solution is meant to reduce the procedure for paying with MPESA at... Read More