The National Treasury has proposed a 16% Value Added Tax on the fees charged by Kenya’s 42 licensed payment service providers. The list is long and familiar: M-Pesa, Airtel Money, Pesapal, Kenswitch, ...

Airtel Money offers free Airtel-to-Airtel transfers across all amounts while M-PESA still charges transaction fees. Here’s why Kenya’s mobile money pricing debate is heating up amid the Finance Bill ...

The proposed Finance Bill 2026 could make sending money more expensive for millions of Kenyans after the National Treasury proposed a 16% VAT on payment platforms.

For the best experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings. M-Pesa interface. Customers could soon enjoy reduced complexity and shorter steps. [File ...

Safaricom accelerated its drive towards NFC and QR code-based m-Pesa payments with an upgrade to its consumer app, expanding the number of payment methods available to its smartphone users. In the ...

Learn how M-Pesa revolutionizes banking in Africa, turning mobile phones into banking tools, letting users store and transfer ...

A tax expert has warned that proposals in the Finance Bill 2026 to impose value-added tax on digital payment platforms could reverse years of progress in financial inclusion and digital commerce by ...

M-Pesa is dominating Kenya but why are international competitors not attacking them? Turns out it is better to partner with them. A staggering 59% of Kenya’s GDP flows through M-PESA, the country’s ...

Vodacom M-Pesa Tanzania adds cross-border payment options Vodacom Tanzania has struck several deals that expand the ways in which people can use its M-Pesa mobile payments service around the world. 1 ...

M-Pesa interface. Customers could soon enjoy reduced complexity and shorter steps. [File, Standard] Safaricom's 30 million M-Pesa customers could soon enjoy reduced complexity and shorter steps when ...