The year 2007 saw the birth of an incredible mobile product M-pesa. Kenya’s banking sector took a complete turn and finally, someone rescued Kenyans from stringent conditions and requirements of…

Kenya’s telecom industry history seems to be repeating itself only that products change by the years. Three years ago, the sector was characterized by mobile tariff wars that immediately simmered…

MasterCard has partnered Grameen Foundation a global nonprofit organization on AppLab Money, an initiative that is designed to create mobile financial services products for the unbanked and underbanked in Kenya….

MTN Group and telecommunications company Bharti Airtel yesterday announced partnership to launch a cross-border remittance that seeks to lift hurdles of transferring money between West African countries; Cote d’Ivoire and…

On a report that focuses on Uganda’s factors for success in agent network management and what the industry needs to focus on in the next stages of development, The Helix…

There are more people with mobile phones than have access to running water. More mobile phone subscribers on the planet than use a toothbrush. Tomi Ahonen an ex-Nokia executive and…

Celtel-Zain-Airtel and Yu have tried this David vs Goliath price war against Safaricom without success. By August last year Airtel gave up on the price wars and increased their talk…

If you can’t beat them, then join them and make the world a better place. Our friends at the Orange Kenya seem to have seen the light  and have partnered…

Safaricom today  launched a new mobile money service known as M-Shwari. M-Shwari  is  partnership between Safaricom and CBA which runs on Mpesa and will be included on the Mpesa sim…

So the new CCK stats for the fourth quarter of the FY 2011/12 are out and here is the summary and my thoughts on some parts: As at 30th June…

It seems Airtel has woken up to try to compete on the mobile money space. This week Airtel Announced that it will allow subscribers to send money to other users…

And here we go, Barclays to go head to head with NationHela after launching a mobile money transfer app that targets diaspora remittances from UK to Kenya.  Barclays Bank of…

Barclays Bank is set to launch its mobile money transfer platform in Kenya tomorrow. Here is part of what they are saying on the invite to the event: “Barclays Bank…

Co-operative Bank of Kenya and Airtel Kenya have entered into a partnership that will enable Co-op Bank Mobile Money Subscribers to deposit and withdraw money directly from their phones using…

Nation Media Group today is set to launch a new Money Transfer Service called  NationHela. NationHela is an international money transfer service  that allows Kenyans in the Diaspora to send…

Ok..Kenyan mobile operator Yu has called on rival Safaricom to open up its mobile money transfer service M-Pesa to other networks.  The idea is great and I think if  it…