NSE starts buying, selling of shares directly via M-Pesa

Safaricom Group CEO Peter Ndegwa speaks during the half-year results announcement, for the financial year 2025/2026, at Safaricom's headquarters in Westlands, Nairobi, Kenya on November 6, 2025. 

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Top stockbrokers have been locked out of a mobile trading platform that will from today allow investors to buy and sell shares directly from M-Pesa.

Safaricom has tapped Kestrel Capital as the sole broker to process trades on the mobile money transfer service, in a shift from the decades-old tradition of relying on stockbrokers for buying and selling equities.

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