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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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) ...

This content is provided by an external author without editing by Finextra. It expresses the views and opinions of the author. The transaction, which was first announced in 2019, will accelerate ...