Vodacom rules out hiving off, listing M-Pesa amid CBK push

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A customer at an M-Pesa outlet.

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Safaricom’s parent company, Vodacom, has ruled out splitting M-Pesa from the telecommunications unit and listing it separately at the stock market amid regulatory pressure.

Vodacom Group CEO Mohamed Joosub told investors during a Monday earnings call that the financial services business provides extra value to voice and data users, making it difficult to separate the fintech from the telecoms unit.

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