Equity picks a new fight with Safaricom over M-Pesa fees Equity Bank Group has written a protest letter to the Central Bank of Kenya (CBK) objecting to Safaricom’s intended increase of charges on bank-to-MPesa transfers, which once effected will raise fees charged on Equitel — its…

Safaricom puts on hold sale of digital decoders Safaricom has suspended the sale of its Internet-enabled digital TV decoders to allow for software upgrade barely three months after its launch. Chief executive Bob Collymore told the Business Daily the suspension was due to realisation that…

M-Shwari clients to get mobile medical consultation services The Commercial Bank of Africa (CBA) has partnered with an international mobile-health provider to offer its more than 11 million M-Shwari customers medical consultation services on their phones. Under the partnership the m-Health service provider Hello Doctor, a subsidiary of Metropolitan…

Micro loans have been made easier by mobile phone platform innovations with companies loaning up to KES 100,000 payable in 30 days.