The quick reaction by many African governments to close borders, enforce curfews and social distancing measures in following WHO recommendations could be the reason why the continent has been spared…
Digitizing the public transport sector is inevitable. Those were the concluding remarks from our webinar last month. COVID-19's impact has been felt in virtually every sector. Public transport in Africa…
That Cellulant pioneered mobile banking is a fact less known beyond the Kenyan fintech and banking circles. For a company that is still considered a fintech despite having a footprint…
Due to the virality of the COVID - 19 epidemic, the World Health Organisation is encouraging the use of digital payments where possible as a precautionary measure. In the wake…
“Sending money should be as easy as sending a photo.” Mark Zuckerberg When Mark Zuckerberg, the Facebook CEO made this remark earlier this year at Facebook’s annual developer's conference, he may…
Last week, Cellulant announced the launch of its consumer brand Tingg- a payments, commerce and financial services super app. The term ‘Super app’ though not new, has mostly been used…
As our lives continue to be more connected and mobile, the disruption of cash as a payment instrument and the rise in mobile money uptake especially in Sub-Saharan Africa is…
Nairobi, Kenya. 4th June 2019…Pan-Africa’s leading financial technology company Cellulant has today announced a partnership with Adyen – a global payment company, further increasing Adyen’s capability to offer its global merchants access…
More than a decade ago, Kenya revolutionized the world of digital payments and financial services through the invention of M-pesa. 12 years later, it’s time to think beyond mobile money…
Every end month comes with the hassle of paying all your bills. The genesis is always, remembering which bills to pay before disconnection, the various account numbers, the actual amounts,…
(image source: https://www.cgap.org/) This is the 2nd and final part of our series on understanding the digital payments space within the Fintech ecosystem in Africa. In our first article, we…
Technology has completely disrupted the delivery of banking and financial services and with it, our expectations of what banking should be – an experience, not a branch we visit. 2018…
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