Mobile money slows down use of plastic cards in payments

Kenyans prefer mobile payments to swiping their plastic cards.

Payments made using plastic cards slowed down further last year as the gap between mobile money and swiping to settle bills continues to widen, driven by convenience of phone-based cash.

Card payments posted a sluggish 3.6 per cent growth to Sh1.39 trillion in 2016, slower than the 6.6 per cent jump registered a year earlier, according to latest data from the Central Bank of Kenya (CBK).

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