Kenyans living outside Kenya can now buy and sell shares on Safaricom’s Ziidi Money market fund. Through the M-PESA App, ...

Share orders grew to 26,169 on Monday, 3.8 times more than the 6,761 deals recorded prior to the start of shares trading through M-Pesa.

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover the opportunities for the US coming from the developing world. Nearly a decade after its launch, M-Pesa has transformed ...

ABSA is now banking on M-Pesa Africa managing director Sitoyo Lopokoiyit’s multi-industry experience to drive its personal ...

Hang around Silicon Valley long enough, and you will hear about the “Lean Startup Approach,” a methodology developed by Steve Blank and popularized by Eric Ries. The Lean Startup Approach emphasizes ...

Safaricom, the mobile network operator behind M-Pesa has released an Application Programming Interface (API) for all developers who want to create solutions tied directly into their payment systems.

Kenyans remain disinterested in pursuing funds legally belonging to them despite the soft economy while in some instances ...

Safaricom has launched a stock-trading feature on its M-Pesa mobile platform, allowing users to buy shares listed on the Nairobi Securities Exchange without opening a traditional brokerage account.The ...

Kenya’s M-Pesa is making a comeback in South Africa after failed attempts four years ago. During its initial launch it had only a million subscribers and had to be shut down. This is what happens when ...

The following is a script from "The Future of Money" which aired on Nov. 22, 2015. Lesley Stahl is the correspondent. Shachar Bar-On and Alexandra Poolos, producers. Tech giants like Google, Facebook, ...