NAIROBI (Reuters) - Kenya's Safaricom will start a joint venture with Vodacom to acquire the intellectual property rights to the popular M-Pesa mobile financial services platform from Britain's ...

NAIROBI (Reuters) – Kenya’s leading telecom firm Safaricom <SCOM.NR> and South Africa’s Vodacom <VODJ.J> said on Monday that they had completed the acquisition of popular mobile money platform M-Pesa ...

This content is provided by an external author without editing by Finextra. It expresses the views and opinions of the author. Vodacom introduced m-pesa to South Africa in 2010 and while the initial ...

Safaricom will start a joint venture with Vodacom to acquire the intellectual property rights to the popular M-Pesa mobile financial services platform from Britain’s Vodafone, Safaricom’s CEO said on ...

The M-Pesa mobile payment platform was launched in Kenya by Vodacom's parent company, Vodafone, in 2007. Shameel Joosub, Vodacom CEO, made this known yesterday, Monday, May9, 2016, in a statement ...

Taking the UK’s Vodafone out of the loop, @SafaricomPLC and @Vodacom have big plans for the African expansion of M-Pesa. –In 2019, M-Pesa users conducted 11bn transactions worth R2trn ($107.1bn) ...

Vodacom is South Africa’s largest mobile network operator. In addition to South Africa, it has a presence in Lesotho, Mozambique, DRC and Tanzania. The company’s primary listing is on the Johannesburg ...