Kenyan-based Safaricom, an integrated communications company in Africa with over 17 million subscribers, has selected a Z-Card to educate its consumers about its banking offering, M-Shwari.
21 May 2013 12:40The May issue of Food Processing Africa takes a look at boosting farming in east Africa, product opportunities in Angola along with trends and insightful new products.
20 May 2013 11:58The effort by card industry stakeholders pushing the adoption of EMV Chip and PIN cards by Kenya banks has received a boost after Kenya Bankers Association (KBA) which had earlier issued a guideline for compliance to the standard for ATMs, supported the campaign urging banks to also issue consumers with EMV Chip and PIN cards.
14 May 2013 13:31Six months ago, Jane Adhiambo Achieng walked into a local Kenyan bank with the hope of getting a loan for her small grocery business.
29 Apr 2013 10:55Western Union, a global payment service, and KCB Group, East Africa's indigenous bank, announced the launch of Account Based Money Transfer service (ABMT) for its customers in Kenya and the region allowing them to receive and send money from more than 200 countries around the world.
24 Apr 2013 11:06
A new report, Bright Africa, provides a uniquely comprehensive look at transaction multiples across the continent.
11 Apr 2013 10:54
PesaPoint Limited on Friday, 5 April 2013, clarified that its fleet of ATMs deployed across the country have been EMV-Chip compliant for over three years now. The payment networks company said its focus was now upgrading the agency banking network which serves over 30 banks to be in compliance with the standard.
8 Apr 2013 10:19Gulf African Bank and International Finance Corporation (IFC), today, Thursday 28 March 2013 announced a partnership which will see IFC join the bank as an equity partner.
28 Mar 2013 11:07
The question ICT providers and regulators alike have to ask themselves is whether they've created a climate conducive to meeting the demands and expectations of the mobile consumers of the future, Themba Khumalo, MTN Group operations executive, said earlier this week.
20 Mar 2013 11:21[Richard Firth] More than half of Africa's one billion population has a mobile phone - and not just for talking. The power of telephony is forging a new enterprise culture, from banking to agriculture to healthcare. Africa has experienced an incredible boom in mobile phone use.
18 Mar 2013 11:14 
DHL Express, the global international express services provider, has expanded its network of DHL Service Points in sub-Saharan Africa from the initial 300 to over 1 000, in just a few short months.
25 Feb 2013 12:28
Regus, the global provider of flexible workplaces, has good news for export-focused East African companies. Latest research by the provider which Nairobi West Midlands Museum Hill's centre celebrated its 5th anniversary last April 2012, gives the thumbs-up to outwardly focused business strategies and suggests that Kenyan companies with links to China and other BRIC nations are particularly well positioned.
25 Feb 2013 10:18
[Dr KF Lai] 2012 saw the
BuzzCity network grow by 67% with over 210.8 billion ads served across the globe and this extensive growth in mobile usage is certain to continue as we move through 2013.
21 Feb 2013 11:07
Tigo Tanzania has been named among the top global socially devoted brands on Facebook in a report issued by SocialBakers on the 7 February 2013, covering a study on the world's top 10 socially devoted brands on Facebook in the last quarter of 2012. Tigo Tanzania is the only telecom company from central, eastern and southern Africa in the ranking among some of the world's biggest brands.
19 Feb 2013 10:48
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