NAIROBI: Visa and Safaricom have agreed a deal which will connect the Kenyan telecom operator's M-Pesa financial services platform with Visa's global network of merchants and cards.
Under the deal, which requires regulatory approval, announced on April 30 by both companies, M-Pesa's 24 million users and 173,000 local merchants will be linked to Visa's 61 million merchants and its more than three billion cards.
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