Banking & Payments

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

Tap to pay. Load more money. Repeat. That's how the MoMoPay bracelet, debuted at MTN Expo operates. For, the time I spent there, I could feel the company of the future. I’ve been in school for the greatest part of my life, doing school stuff... Read More

Hard cash seems destined to disappear with the emergence and growth of the digital world. We’ve actually gotten to the point where we have digital taxi hailing businesses. Here I am to expound on a digital payment system, very popular in China and fast gaining... Read More

Earlier this year, Safaricom and Airtel announced that their mobile money solutions, M-PESA and AirtelMoney will start to play nice with each other following an interoperability agreement. This move sought to make it easier for users of the respective platforms to transact across the carrier... Read More

MTN Uganda in partnership with Mastercard and United Bank for Africa (UBA) have announced a new service that will enable quicker, safer and more convenient online payments globally. Through this partnership, MTN MoMo customers will use a virtual card to shop or make payments at... Read More

MTN Uganda has today announced a "Scan to Pay" feature to its MoMoPay, its mobile payment system at a stakeholders business breakfast. The feature uses a QR code printed at the merchant business premise that users scan using MyMTN App to checkout. It doesn't work on... Read More

According to Reuters, Safaricom is reportedly in advanced talks with the Ethiopian government to take its class-leading and globally known mobile money service, M-Pesa in the country. Ethiopian state telecommunications monopoly Ethio Telecom will carry the service, while Safaricom will host the servers back in Nairobi. If... Read More

Barclays Africa Group Ltd shareholders in mid-May this year approved that the group changes its name to Absa Group Limited, setting in motion the start of one of the largest re-brand projects in Africa. And time has not waited for its other self, the curtain has been... Read More

Just like MTN Uganda Mobile money users can send money directly to Safaricom M-Pesa mobile users or MTN Rwanda in an instant, MTN Rwanda subscribes can as well send money to MTN Uganda and Safaricom users via mobile money. If you've wanted to send money... Read More