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Tue, July 15th 2014, 18:00 · Chris Udemans

MasterCard launches MasterPass digital wallet in SA

Financial services company MasterCard has launched MasterPass in South Africa, allowing individuals in the country to make secure digital payments online. → Read more
Tue, June 3rd 2014, 18:30 · Paul Adepoju

Tigo, IFC, MasterCard sign $2m agreement to expand mobile money in Ghana

Tigo has signed a US$2 million agreement with the International Finance Corporation (IFC) and the MasterCard Foundation as part of efforts to expand mobile financial services in Ghana. → Read more
Fri, May 9th 2014, 08:00 · Guest Post

Guest Post: Sami Lahoud, VP of communications, Mastercard MEA

Sami Lahoud, vice president of communications in the Middle East and Africa (MEA) for MasterCard, explains how new technologies, including biometrics, can play a role in financial inclusion on the continent. → Read more
Wed, April 16th 2014, 15:30 · Agatha Nduku

MasterCard funding AppLab Money for Kenya’s unbanked

MasterCard has partnered the Grameen Foundation on AppLab Money, an initiative designed to create mobile financial services products for the unbanked and underbanked in Kenya. → Read more
Tue, April 8th 2014, 18:00 · Susan Mwenesi

GTBank to issue MasterCard payment products in Kenya

Guaranty Trust Bank (GTBank) has been licenced by MasterCard to issue its debit, credit and prepaid cards in Kenya, a move expected to increase the adoption of electronic payments in the country, especially in the retail banking sector. → Read more
Thu, April 3rd 2014, 20:00 · Paul Adepoju

MasterCard to train 1,500 Nigerian female entrepreneurs

Nigeria’s Youth for Technology Foundation (YTF) in partnership with MasterCard is organising technology training for 1,500 female entrepreneurs from the Niger-Delta region of Nigeria. → Read more
Fri, March 21st 2014, 16:00 · Abdirizaq Hussein

MasterCard, Jamii Bora enhance electronic payments

Kenya’s Jamii Bora Bank has been licensed to issue MasterCard debit, prepaid and credit cards, which is expected to enhance the adoption of electronic payments among the bank's clientele. → Read more
Tue, March 4th 2014, 14:20 · Paul Adepoju

MasterCard expands operations to 7 African nations

MasterCard has announced the addition of Liberia, Sierra Leone, Rwanda, Chad, Central African Republic, Guinea-Bissau and Gambia to the African markets in which it operates, taking it into 48 out of 55 African nations. → Read more
Thu, February 6th 2014, 13:00 · Tom Jackson

MasterCard launches cashless bus payments in Kenya

MasterCard has joined Visa, Google and Safaricom in rolling out a service allowing Kenyan commuters to pay public transport fares using mobile money. → Read more
Wed, January 15th 2014, 17:00 · Nick Sato

MasterCard, Ecobank partner to accelerate electronic payments in Africa

Ecobank and MasterCard have announced a multi-country licensing agreement which will provide access to MasterCard’s payment solutions for Ecobank’s customers in a further 23 African countries. → Read more
Thu, October 17th 2013, 14:20 · Nanine Steenkamp

Oberthur partners with MasterCard for mobile money programme

Oberthur Technologies has signed an agreement with MasterCard to offer a mobile money programme to help 2.5 billion unbanked people to transact on mobile platforms. → Read more
Thu, September 5th 2013, 15:00 · Nanine Steenkamp

MasterCard releases small business offering

MasterCard has collaborated with Blue Label Telecoms to offer extended electronic payment solutions to small businesses in South Africa. → Read more
Wed, August 21st 2013, 11:00 · Paul Adepoju

Local apps will be integrated into MasterCard’s Nigerian national ID card

MasterCard has revealed it is only developing the chip technology for the Nigerian national ID card scheme, with local content still set to feature prominently. → Read more
Thu, August 1st 2013, 10:04 · Nick Sato

Paynet partners with MasterCard Kenya to drive local migration to EMV cards

MasterCard Kenya has signed a deal with regional card processor Paynet Group to partner in a local initiative dubbed “The great migration to EMV chip” which is geared towards encouraging the switch from magnetic strip to EMV cards. → Read more
Wed, June 26th 2013, 10:17 · Richard Cutcher

MasterCard’s mobile money entry in Egypt unlikely to set a trend

Cases of card companies such as Visa and MasterCard working with networks to introduce mobile money in Africa are going to be rare, according to a South African banking and mobile expert. → Read more
Wed, June 12th 2013, 08:38 · Nick Sato

MasterCard launches training facility in Kenya

MasterCard has launched a new training facility in Kenya to empower the financial services ecosystem with knowledge on various aspects of cashless payments in the region. → Read more
Wed, May 15th 2013, 10:21 · Paul Adepoju

Cancel MasterCard national ID card contract, Nigerian govenment told

A local content advocacy initiative has advised the Nigerian government to cancel the national identity cards contract awarded to MasterCard, stating it is against the promotion of local content development and puts national security at risk. → Read more
Thu, April 25th 2013, 08:16 · Richard Cutcher

Future of payments does not need Mastercard or Visa – banking chief

The “gorillas” of Mastercard and Visa will not be needed in the future because of the direction of banking and payment solutions in the cloud, according to a technology chief at South Africa’s Standard Bank. → Read more
Wed, April 17th 2013, 07:08 · Kamau Mbote

I&M and MasterCard launch first multi-currency prepaid card

I&M and MasterCard have unveiled a multi-currency prepaid, allowing users to carry three international currencies - US dollars, British pounds and euros - on one card. → Read more
Wed, March 27th 2013, 14:36 · Kamau Mbote

MasterCard launches second wave of Project Inspire

MasterCard and UN Women Singapore kicked off the second wave of Project Inspire yesterday, setting aside US$25,000 for the woman that will change the world → Read more