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M-Pesa to send cash direct to China’s WeChat users

A Safaricom subscriber performing M-Pesa transaction. FILE PHOTO | NMG

By  IVY NYAYIEKA

Safaricom’s #ticker:SCOM M-Pesa users are now able to send money instantly to users of China’s largest payment and social media application, WeChat.

The partnership between Family Bank Limited and London-based financial technology firm SimbaPay will enable the 23,946,174 active M-Pesa users in Kenya to send money to over 1 billion active WeChat subscribers in China.

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