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 ...

Safaricom CEO Bob Collymore says reduction in M-Pesa transaction fee will provide Kenyans with affordable access to basic financial services. Nairobi, Kenya: Mobile service provider Safaricom Tuesday ...

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

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, ...

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 ...

The Treasury is seeking to impose a 16 percent value-added tax (VAT) on Kenya’s 42 payment platforms, such as Pesapal, Kenswitch, Airtel Money and M-Pesa, which could trigger an increase in user fees ...

President William Ruto’s administration wants to impose a new 16% value-added tax on services by payment platforms.