In celebration of International Women’s Day, Visa has announced the launch of the first Visa Everywhere Initiative: Women’s Global Edition. The global program invites women entrepreneurs from around the world to tackle FinTech and Social Impact challenges for a chance to win $100,000 in each of the two challenges. To participate, companies with at least […]
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Visa has announced a new partnership with international mobile financial services firm Branch to offer custom financing to Visa merchants across Kenya. The eligible merchants will be able to access loans of up to KES 30,000 which can be repaid within 6 months. The loans which will directly be disbursed to the Visa merchants’ phones […]
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Kenyan Startup Mookh Africa is the overall winner of the Visa Sub Saharan Africa (SSA) Everywhere Initiative, The startup won both the “Social Business Payments” challenge as well as the overall prize for its idea taking home KES.5 million and the opportunity to work with Visa to develop the concept further. The Visa Everywhere Initiative […]
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Visa has announced that it will be opening up the first Visa Everywhere Initiative for Sub Saharan Africa to young developers at this year’s Nairobi Tech Week (NTW). Developers who win the Visa-led hackathon during the tech week will automatically gain entry into the Visa Everywhere Initiative where they will have an opportunity to compete for a chance […]
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I&M Bank has partnered with Visa Kenya to launch the I&M Bank Visa Infinite Credit Card and the I&M Visa Platinum Debit Card in Kenya for its Premium clients. Both cards have been developed with customer needs in mind and will complement I&M Bank’s efforts in enhancing customer centricity, dynamism, and innovation in line with […]
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Visa has today introduced a new mobile payment service in the country. Known as mVisa, the company says the service is will accelerate digital commerce in Kenya and across Africa. With mVisa, consumers can directly access all of the funds in their bank accounts to pay merchants (person-to-merchant or P2M) or individuals (person-to-person or P2P). […]
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Visa will this year implement 4,000 POS terminals across key Olympic venues, as well as 11 ATMs in partnership with Bradesco. The company made this announcement as it celebrated 100 day milestone to the Rio 2016 Olympics Games. Visa, which has been the exclusive payment provider of the Olympic games for 30 years now has […]
Continue ReadingOn year after Airtel Kenya launched the Airtel Money VISA card, the debit card continues to allow easy access funds 24 hours a day, bringing new point-of-sale and ATM transaction options to users. The Airtel Money VISA card was as a result of a partnership between Airtel Kenya, leading global payments technology company VISA and […]
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