The deal will see the pair work on the development of new products and services supporting digital payment for customers of Safaricom’s M-Pesa micro-finance and payments platform. The partnership will cover over 24 million M-Pesa customers, more than 173,000 M-Pesa merchants from Safaricom and more than 61 million merchants on Visa’s network. “This partnership will play an important role in delivering even more value to our customers,” says Peter Ndegwa, CEO of Safaricom.

C’est un retour en force aux allures de pari. Quatre ans après avoir retiré M-Pesa du marché sud-africain, l’opérateur de télécommunications Vodacom a annoncé en juillet le lancement d’un nouveau service de paiement par mobile. L’offre sera conçue en partenariat avec Ant Financial Services Group, un groupe chinois qui commercialise le puissant service de mobile money Alipay, créé par le fondateur du site d’e-commerce Alibaba, Jack Ma.

CEO of Abacus Wealth Management, an online investment brokerage. Abacus allows investors to make and execute faster, smarter, more informed decisions on instruments in Kenya's financial markets. CEO of Capital Associates, an investment and holding company with interests in financial services, real estate, agriculture and technology. Previously started and built Kenya’s largest consumer financial news and information site. Experience in mobile money, having led teams that developed mobile banking solutions for Kenyan branches of global banks such as Barclays and Standard Chartered, and several local banks and financial institutions. I keep up to date with changes in the industry and get involved through consulting and advisory. Actively involved in Kenya’s start-up scene as an entrepreneur, a member of the iHub and Venture Capital for Africa (VC4A) communities, as an advisor to several web and mobile start-ups and a writer. My focus is on business and revenue models, financing and venture capital.

STARTUP WATCH- Cairo-based investment platform Thndr was awarded Egypt’s first new brokerage license since 2008, according to a company statement (pdf). The mobile-first equities trading platform offers three zero-commission plans, including one unpaid scheme and two plans priced at EGP 15 and EGP 55 per month. Thndr secured a pre-seed funding round last December from Y-Combinator, 4DX Ventures, Endure Capital, the Raba Partnership, and MSA Capital, Co-founder and CEO Ahmad Hammouda (Uber Egypt’s former general manager) said, without disclosing the size of investment.

Egyptian mobile investment app, Thndr has become the first brokerage firm to receive regulatory approval from the Financial Regulatory Association (FRA) in the last 12 years. The financial startup allows users to link their Egyptian bank account, and trade, invest, and profit from Egyptian stocks, bonds, and indices. The decision by FRA to give the startup regulatory approval comes after Egypt reforms its financial regulations on new companies with the recently approved Banking Act passed last month which allows more companies to become involved with financial trading and investment.

With Ethiopia moving to a strategy which helps embrace the wisdom of solar energy within the country and play catch-up to successes achieved in neighboring nations such as Kenya and Rwanda; HelloSolar in partnership with BelCash – the mobile banking platform system – is set to introduce a pay-as-you-go system for the nation’s off-grid population with affordable solar home system.

A Dutch company technology company developed an application that enables buyers to order, pay and receive a shipment. Belcash Technology Solutions Plc launched the e-commerce platform, HelloMarket shipments, with an estimated investment of one million dollars. The application, which was designed with the major aim of allowing local suppliers and manufacturers to promote and sell their products, will provide leather products, crafts, traditional clothing, souvenirs, homemade seasonings and other similar items manufactured by small and medium-sized enterprises. The e-commerce platform, integrated with Hellocash, a mobile and agent banking app for the purpose of making electronic payments, has a delivery system in place through Belcash agents around the country.

EasyEquities is an investment platform specialising in fractional investing. With the democratisation of technology and the rise of the Internet of Things, investing now has too become democratised. With EasyEquities, you can now enjoy the economic benefits of buying whole shares (price dividends and other corporate actions) through the purchase of fractional shares. Fractional shares – indicative of the democratisation of investment opportunities – are fractions of whole shares purchased at no minimum cost. Once you acquire fractional shares through the EasyEquities platform, you earn Fractional share rights (FSRs). As you make further investments in FSRs and ultimately end up with a whole share, the whole share is delivered to you. EasyEquities gives you the opportunity to enjoy the same diversification benefits through fractional shares as you would have with a large share portfolio, making every Rand and Cent count

Capitec has added share trading to its portfolio after entering into a partnership with low-cost investment platform EasyEquities. The move, which was announced on Friday, could be seen as a sign that Capitec wants to be able to satisfy the diverse requirements of more upper-income clients for broader financial services. The company has traditionally used no-frills bank accounts to attract budget-savvy low- to middle-class banking clients. ..

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Sanlam’s recent deal to acquire a 30% stake in EasyEquities for R100m sparked a lot of interest in the market. However, Sanlam-owned Satrix and EasyEquities have struck up partnerships prior to this deal with the advent of SatrixNOW, an offering that taps a white-labeled EasyEquities service. CEO of Satrix, Helena Conradie, took some time out earlier this week to chat to BizNews about the Sanlam-EasyEquities deal and the backstory to how a tweet of all things kick-started the relationship between the two businesses…

The online equity investment platform has reached a tipping point, with more than 150-thousand active users. Purple Group has reported a strong rise in first-half earnings as its EasyEquities online investment and trading platform reached tipping point. The fintech group owns 70% of EasyEquities and Sanlam Investments holds the remaining 30%.

The next six months will, no doubt, prove to be unpredictable. In many ways perhaps some of the toughest months experienced in the investment world in decades lie ahead with the world economy in unchartered waters," Purple Group said. "But that suits us just fine. Firm in the knowledge that we simply must, every minute of every day, be there for our partners and clients on their financial journey."

Cotlands is proud to be partnering with EasyEquities for a cause related marketing initiative with their investor community through #DonateForGood.  EasyEquities and the EasyCommunity want to play their part by supporting Cotlands beneficiaries that are adversely affected by the COVID-19 outbreak. EasyEquities have created a feature on their platform inviting investors to donate to our organisation. You can make a donation on the share purchase page on the EasyEquities platform. All you need to do is to make sure you have enough funds in your available cash. This donation feature is available in the EasyEquities ZAR and TFSA accounts. 

First announced last year in December, EasyEquities crowdfunding campaign entailed an indirect investment into a Mauritian entity which would then subsequently invest in the 10 startups from Startupbootcamp Cape Town‘s first cohort. The investment round was initially slated for launch on 15 January, however this was postponed earlier this month to 1 February so that the platform could update the shareholder prospectus — which lays out the terms of the investment.

The EasyEquities platform is powered by First World Trader ("FWT"), meaning it runs on FWT's core infrastructure, but it is a simplified offering in terms of the user interface and the investment offering is designed to keep costs to a minimum and the process intuitive and easy.

EasyEquities owner Purple Group intends to speed up its entry into new markets and the rollout of new products following its first annual profit since 2012.The financial services company is pursuing its mission of "democratising all things investment" with an almost evangelical zeal, and years of slog have finally paid off with earnings of R17m for the year ended August...

Easy Equities is an easy to use platform where you can buy equities, exchange-traded funds (ETFs) and exchange-traded notes (ETNs), as well as other baskets and bundles. If the term ‘safe’ in your question means that it’s a legitimate and licensed platform, and the person running Easy Equities is not going take your money and buy themselves a Ferrari and post it on Instagram, then yes, Easy Equities is ‘safe

EasyEquities clients won’t be able to buy Nokia shares, while the fight between retail investors and Wall Street hots up.Millions of small investors have been buying GameStop shares to squeeze large hedge funds, who bet big money that the US retailer’s share price would fall.

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Mubawab, Morocco’s leading real estate portal acquired by EMPG in May 2018, has announced the acquisition of Jumia’s acclaimed property listings website Jumia House for the North African (specifically Morocco, Tunisia and Algeria) region. “The acquisition consolidates Mubawab’s position as the region’s leading real estate website, while providing access to the most promising real estate markets in the Maghreb, with more than 90 million people,” a company spokesperson said in a statement.