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    MTN Mobile MOney

    MTN Group CEO — Africa’s Fintech Market Has Room for Banks and Telcos to Play and Collaborate

    Paul MurungiGlobal NewsThe Big StoryNovember 26, 2025November 26, 2025

    How do you rate Uganda’s performance with MTN’s continental portfolio, both in digital adoption but also returns, compared to other African markets?  Yes, as MTN, we are operating in 16…

    M-PESA Africa Managing Director Sitoyo Lopokoiyit speaks at the 2025 Fintechs Annual Gathering in Kampala, urging Africa to shape its own digital destiny through innovation, youth empowerment, and regional collaboration.

    Building Africa’s Fintect Sovereignty: What we Learn from M-PESA’s Ambitious Vision and the Risk of a Possible New Wave of Digital Colonialism

    Jeff WintersThe Big StoryOctober 24, 2025October 23, 2025

    At the 2025 Fintechs Annual Gathering in Kampala, Sitoyo Lopokoiyit, the M-PESA Africa managing director, delivered one of the event’s most compelling keynotes, part warning, part vision, and wholly inspiring….

    In the 12 months to June 30, 2025, mobile money and e-money providers transferred UGX 10.8 billion in closed-account balances to the central bank for safekeeping, which brought the total accumulation in unclaimed e-money to UGX88.1 billion.

    UGX88.1 billion Remains Unclaimed at BoU in Dormant Mobile Money Accounts

    CEO East Africa MagazineThe Big StoryOctober 10, 2025October 17, 2025

    At least UGX 88.1 billion remains unclaimed in closed mobile money and other e-money accounts, a Bank of Uganda report shows. The money, which is currently held Bank of Uganda…

    The Big Yellow Machine: Meet the MTN Exco Team Driving the Telecom’s Accelerated Growth

    Paul MurungiExecutive ProfilesThe Big StoryJuly 2, 2025July 2, 2025

    Behind every billion-shilling leap in revenue, every surge in subscriber numbers, and every bold Fintech innovation at MTN Uganda is more than just strategy—it’s a story of people. A story…

    Ugandans transacted UGX 435 billion per day through MTN mobile money in 2024 

    Paul MurungiBusiness & MarketsThe Big StoryMarch 6, 2025March 7, 2025

    Ugandans on average transacted UGX 159 trillion on MTN Mobile Money, which translated to UGX 435 billion per day for the 12 months to December 2024.  Details contained in the…

    3 years after being spun off the parent company, MTN Mobile Money is emerging into Uganda’s largest fintech

    Muhereza KyamuteteraCEO PerspectivesNews & AnalysisThe Big StoryJune 4, 2024June 4, 2024

    Ahead of the fintech’s 3rd anniversary, CEO East Africa Magazine’s Executive Editor, Muhereza Kyamutetera, spoke to Richard Yego as well as Jemima Kariuki-Njuguna, the Chief Product Officer; Stephen Mutana, the…

    We are not after the banks’ cake; but are baking our own more affordable and widely accessible one- Segun Ogunsanya, Airtel Africa Group CEO  

    Muhereza KyamuteteraBusiness & MarketsThe Big StoryMay 8, 2023July 2, 2023

    “I don’t think we have dug into the space of bankers or the space of banking. We have just discovered a need that is not being met by conventional banks,”…

    USE Partners with MTN Mobile Money to Digitalize SCD Account Opening

    CEO ReporterCompany NewsNews & AnalysisSeptember 14, 2021September 14, 2021

    Uganda Securities Exchange’s (USE) Securities Depository USE SCD has today launched a digital Securities Central Depository (SCD) account opening platform in partnership with MTN Mobile Money in a bid to…

    MTN Values Mobile Money Arm at UGX18 trillion (US$5b), Considers IPO

    CEO ReporterCompany NewsApril 13, 2021April 13, 2021

    MTN Group Ltd. values its mobile money arm at about US$5 billion (UGX18 trillion) and will consider a listing of the division, joining African wireless carriers trying to monetize a…

    MTN introduces Mobile Money transactions on the Ayoba mobile app

    CEO ReporterCompany NewsOctober 20, 2020October 20, 2020

    MTN Uganda has introduced Mobile Money person to person transactions within the ayoba App, a feature that will enable customers to send money to each other in-app, while chatting, without…

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