Visa and Safaricom launch a virtual card to let M-Pesa users transact over Visa's network. Digital payments are quickly replacing cash in Africa—making the region an attractive destination for ...

And last month, one of the world’s financial services giants — Visa — connected M-Pesa to its global network. Visa and Safaricom — which is Kenya’s largest telecom and operator of M-Pesa ...

Visa just connected to Africa’s most powerful mobile payments network. The global financial services company and Kenyan telecom Safaricom — operator of the M-Pesa mobile money product ...

NANYUKI, Kenya, June 2 (Reuters) - M-Pesa, the mobile phone-based African money transfer service owned by Kenya's Safaricom Plc (SCOM.NR), opens new tab, and Visa Inc (V.N), opens new tab launched ...

The launch of the new M-PESA Visa virtual card opens global shopping for Kenyan consumers, allowing secure cashless payments at more than 100 million merchants in over 200 countries through Visa ...

M-Pesa virtual Visa card is undercutting Kenya’s commercial banks with lower foreign exchange rates in the race to get a larger share of the country’s cross-border payments market. The virtual ...

M-Pesa, the mobile phone-based African money transfer service owned by Kenya's Safaricom Plc, and Visa Inc launched a virtual payment card on Thursday in a bid to capture some of the continent's $ ...

Two years ago Visa and Kenya’s Safaricom announced a partnership that would see the two utilise the latter’s M-Pesa payment platform for the launch of new solutions. Now that partnership has ...

A pedestrian wearing a protective face mask passes a Safaricom Plc store in central Nairobi, Kenya, on Tuesday, May 11, 2021. Revenue from M-Pesa, Safaricom’s mobile-money service, is expected ...