Kenya

Safaricom’s best chance to take on Uber lies in an old tool — the SIM Card — not an app.

As the curtain drew on the 19th century, the first motor vehicles took to the street. Human history had been altered forever.

Old bankers don’t steal, they just borrow without security : Lessons from Chase Bank on how FinTech alone can’t save a bank.

Chase Bank (no relation to its American namesake) was placed under receivership last week. The bank often touted itself…

Government Directive : No more cash on matts

This year promises to be an interesting one for the local payments industry. The government has already indicated that it will issue a new policy directive to ban the use of currency notes and coin in public transport starting July 1st, 2014.

How not to sign up for a Bitcoin wallet service

1. Get on Kipochi.com .

2. Fill in sign up form. Type in personal details (half the point of BTC is anonymity, but you’ll live with this since it is ‘required in some jurisdictions’, including one you’re in, and you…

Google, Equity riding on BebaPay for payments success

In my last post I shared my experience with Google and Equity’s BebaPay card and a few tips on using it. I am a great fan of the idea, but then again I am a notorious sucker for novelty, the perennial early adopter. The question has…

Getting Mobile Money: Orange Money helps Orange Kenya nearly double subscriber figures in latest CCK stats.

So the CCK Q2 market report came out earlier this month and one of the things that jumped right and was headlining most of the week was the news…