Inside M-Pesa’s Journey: An Idea That Changed the Way Africa Moves Money
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Inside M-Pesa’s Journey: An Idea That Changed the Way Africa Moves Money

July 29, 2025
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Inside M-Pesa’s journey lies one of the most remarkable stories of technological innovation reshaping the financial industry of Africa and beyond. Launched in Kenya in 2007 by Safaricom and Vodafone, M-Pesa (short for “mobile money” in Swahili) emerged as a bold experiment to address the limited access to banking services

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Inside Interswitch’s Journey: From Pioneering Payments to Shaping Africa’s Fintech Future
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Inside Interswitch’s Journey: From Pioneering Payments to Shaping Africa’s Fintech Future

July 22, 2025
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In 2002, long before “fintech” became a buzzword in Africa, one Nigerian engineer saw a broken financial system and envisioned a seamless digital payments network. That engineer, Mitchell Elegbe, would go on to found Interswitch, the company that built the rails for Nigeria’s electronic payments ecosystem and became a blueprint

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