{"id":107532,"date":"2019-03-14T01:34:06","date_gmt":"2019-03-13T17:34:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mobileworldlive.com\/?p=239409"},"modified":"2019-03-14T01:34:06","modified_gmt":"2019-03-13T17:34:06","slug":"safaricom-boosts-m-pesa-reach-with-alibaba-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/2019\/03\/14\/safaricom-boosts-m-pesa-reach-with-alibaba-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"Safaricom boosts m-Pesa reach with Alibaba deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>        \tKenya-based Safaricom struck a partnership with Alibaba Group to allow its customers to make online purchases on the AliExpress platform through mobile money service m-Pesa.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement, Safaricom said the move specifically targets traders in Kenya which source goods and other supplies from Chinese manufacturers, while also signifying the operator\u2019s drive to \u201cposition m-Pesa as a truly global mobile money transfer and payments platform\u201d. Safaricom has been on a drive to boost its payments platform and already has agreements with payments companies Western Union and Paypal.<\/p>\n<p>Through the partnership, Kenyans will be able to use m-Pesa as a payment option when shopping on AliExpress.com, a global e-commerce platform. Once customers select m-Pesa, they then can key in their mobile numbers, and use their PIN to complete a transaction.<\/p>\n<p>Chief customer officer at Safaricom, Sylvia Mulinge, said more than 21 million customers will now be able to use m-Pesa on the AliExpress platform.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis partnership seeks to connect Kenyans to more business opportunities by enabling them to seamlessly source, purchase and import goods from the world\u2019s leading manufacturers,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>The service is already live on the AliExpress app, and will be available on its website in the coming weeks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kenya-based Safaricom struck a partnership with Alibaba Group to allow its customers to make online &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mobileworldlive.com\/money\/news-money\/safaricom-boosts-m-pesa-reach-with-alibaba-deal\/\">Safaricom boosts m-Pesa reach with Alibaba deal<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mobileworldlive.com\/\">Mobile World Live<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/2019\/03\/14\/safaricom-boosts-m-pesa-reach-with-alibaba-deal\/\">\u95b1\u8b80\u5168\u6587 <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":57,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"slim_seo":[],"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[2,3771,2047,3772,7],"tags":[398,402,397,414,413,410,499,409,407,408,406,399,400,394,10,401,396,787,786,784,782,783,764,785,403,412,411,395,405,404,778,779,780,781],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7prtj-rYo","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107532"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/57"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107532"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107532\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":107533,"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107532\/revisions\/107533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}