Kenya has emerged as a leader in digital trade in the East Africa region, which has been ranked as the strongest-performing ...

An IMF and Johns Hopkins University study shows that Kenya’s GDP growth can be estimated in real time by combining monthly indicators like trade, electricity, remittances and mobile money data into a ...

Safaricom CEO Peter Ndegwa [holding a phone]Safaricom’s mobile money platform M-Pesa has reached 40 million monthly active users in Kenya, marking a major milestone as the service celebrates 19 years ...

Kenya, a leading pioneer in mobile-money transactions, saw transfers grow last year at the slowest pace since 2007 after the government increased excise duty on transaction fees. The value of ...

The country's successful mobile banking and payments initiative, M-Pesa, turns 10, while the rest of the world plays catch-up. Katie is a UK-based news reporter and features writer. Officially, she is ...

Kenya licensed 42 new digital lenders, raising the country’s total number to 195, as the central bank pushes to formalize a sector that has become an important part of East Africa’s largest economy.

In a wide-ranging interview with Capital FM Business, Sunil Taldar, Group Chief Executive Officer of Airtel Africa, unpacked the company's strategy on mobile money growth, future launches, market ...