Global tech giants eyeing Kenya’s digital payment pie
Digital payments in Kenya have been ruled by Safaricom through its revolutionary MPesa services. This is despite there being other ...
Tag: Financial Inclusion
The potential of innovation in regulatory sandbox in Africa
When Kenya's Capital Markets Authority announced it will launch its regulations for a sandbox, industry players knew the regulator was ...
Digital banking key in boosting financial inclusion
Tanzania`s vast geographical boundaries and mobile phone penetration among its demographics have attributed to a shift of many Tanzanians from ...
MIT, Liquid Telecom partner for Inclusive Innovation Challenge
The IIC will award a total of USD1.6 million this year —including USD250,000 to each of the four winning organisations.
Islamic banking is not only for Muslims- Alhuda CIBE MD
The Exchange sat down with Zubair Mughal, Managing Director of Alhuda CIBE, a center for Islamic Banking and Economics based ...
Swedish fintech Okapi, Ecobank partner for Africa’s unbanked
In a move aimed at promoting financial inclusion, Okapi Finance has entered into a partnership with Ecobank, as the company ...
MasterCard and IFC in Financial inclusion for African farmers
IFC, a member of the World Bank Group, together with the Mastercard Foundation, have launched the Digital Financial Services for ...
Tanzania Comes Top in Mobile Banking
“Kenya leads the region,” the report shows, “But mobile money transactions are also growing rapidly in Tanzania and Uganda, where ...
