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Payments gateway: How Wapipay took a Sh65 billion bite of diaspora remittances

 WapiPay CEO and Co-founder Eddie Ndichu during an interview at his Office in Westlands, Nairobi on February 19, 2025.

Photo credit: Bonface Bogita | Nation Media Group

By  Kabui Mwangi

Correspondent

Nation Media Group

It took Edward Ndichu and his business partner, Paul Ndichu, just 18 months to get one million customers on their cross-border payments platform, Wapipay, which obtained an operating licence in Kenya in mid-2023.

But how did this happen?

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