TECNO Mobile, the behemoth Chinese mobile phone brand with a massive uptake in Africa is planning to launch its mobile wallet offering in Kenya and Nigeria this month. TECNO Wallet, as the mobile wallet will be known, has been developed in partnership with third-party financial institutions and will act as

Xoom, PayPal’s money transfer service that serves millions of diaspora users globally has today launched money transfers to mobile wallets in Kenya and other markets in Africa for customers in the US, UK, Canada, and Europe. This is a timely move given that Kenya had remittances of Kes. 285 Billion

It’s almost 11 years since Kenya and East Africa got connected to by the East African Marine System (TEAMS) submarine cable which set the stage for the transformation of the regional digital economy that we are currently experiencing. So much has changed since then that it’s hard to imagine that