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In 2019, Stitch was founded in Cape Town, South Africa as Stitch Money. [5] In February 2021, Stitch raised $4 million in seed funding. The firm was initially focused on enabling businesses to access user financial accounts to view financial data. [6] [7] In April 2021, the company began piloting its first payments product – Pay-ins. [8]
Established in 2014, Ozow has headquarters in Johannesburg and Cape Town, South Africa. [4] It was co-founded by Thomas Pays, [5] Mitchan Adams, [6] and Lyle Eckstein. [7] Ozow has developed and currently operates an online automated Electronic Funds Transfer (EFT) payment gateway [8] in South Africa.
The company launched as Virgin Money South Africa in 2006, as a partnership between Virgin Group (owners of the Virgin Money brand) and Absa, as an issuer of credit cards. [2] The 50-50 joint venture was worth R240 million at the time of launch. [3] By 2013 Virgin Money's customers had R1 billion in total credit. [4]
South African mobile phone operator MTN is launching services allowing users to send cash abroad and businesses to accept payments via an app as it pushes further into the country's rapidly ...
Alphabet Inc launched Google Wallet in South Africa on Tuesday, as the tech giant tries to gain a foothold in the country's rapidly growing digital payments space. The COVID-19 pandemic has ...
M-PESA (M for mobile, PESA is Swahili for money) is a mobile phone-based money transfer service, payments and micro-financing service, launched in 2007 by Vodafone and Safaricom, the largest mobile network operator in Kenya. [1] It has since expanded to Tanzania, Mozambique, DRC, Lesotho, Ghana, Egypt, Afghanistan, South Africa and Ethiopia.
By 2015, it said it had powered 150,000 households in Kenya, Uganda, and Tanzania, with around 10,000 mobile payments made by users on its cloud platform, M-Kopanet, made on a daily basis. [1] It had over $40 million of revenue by 2015. [11] [12] In 2015, M-Kopa estimated that 80 percent of its customers lived on less than $2 a day. [13]
TymeBank is a South African digital bank aimed at the lower income market. [1] [2] Headquartered in Rosebank, Johannesburg, TymeBank does not have any physical bank branches and relies on an Android banking App, and Internet Banking site and a partnership with two retail chains, Pick n Pay and Boxer, to host a national network of self-service kiosks that facilitate the account opening process.