MTN, Flutterwave cement fintech alliance
Pan-African mobile operator MTN has announced a mobile money partnership with Africa's leading payments tech company, Flutterwave.
This partnership will allow businesses integrating Flutterwave to receive payments via MTN Mobile Money (MoMo) in Cameroon, Côte d’Ivoire, Rwanda, Uganda and Zambia.
MTN MoMo is a fintech platform providing consumers and businesses with an electronic wallet, enabling electronic transfers and payments as well as access to digital and financial services.
At the end of June 2021, MTN MoMo had 48.9 million active users and 581,514 merchants.
MoMo enables businesses to accept and make payments within the mobile money ecosystem. This new partnership will enable Flutterwave to offer MTN Mobile Money as a payment method to its business customers.
The new partnership will further expand on Flutterwave's previous collaboration with MTN, beyond Uganda and Rwanda – with the potential of deepening adoption of digital payments and e-commerce in Africa, a sector expected to reach $29 billion by 2022, according to Statista.
"Africa has one of the highest growth rates for mobile money adoption and e-commerce in the world. It makes sense that we help provide a seamless payment method to support and ensure African businesses reap the full benefits of the e-commerce boom in the region," said Flutterwave founder and CEO Olugbenga "GB" Agboola about the partnership.
"Our goal has always been to grow a new wave of prosperity in Africa by creating more avenues for businesses in Africa to accept payments. With this partnership, we can achieve this while creating endless possibilities for our customers," Agboola added.
In recent years, Africa has witnessed an explosion in mobile penetration as smartphone adoption has risen rapidly. According to the GSMA, this year Africa will hit the half-billion mark of unique mobile subscribers and the continent will reach 50% subscriber penetration by 2025.
Sub-Saharan Africa alone is responsible for more than 45% of the world's mobile money accounts with the number of account holders exceeding half a billion by 2020, according to Statista.
"As we progress on our journey to becoming the largest fintech platform in Africa, we will empower millions of businesses to embrace e-commerce in our markets to accept digital payments from MoMo consumers. We believe this is an enabler to accelerating digitized payments in Africa," said MTN Group chief digital and fintech officer, Serigne Dioum in a statement.
He said that building strong ecosystems through partnerships is central to MTN's platform strategy and it will continue to invest in expanding the reach of its platform to consumers and businesses in Africa.
— The Staff, Connecting Africa
Pan-African mobile operator MTN has announced a mobile money partnership with Africa's leading payments tech company, Flutterwave.
This partnership will allow businesses integrating Flutterwave to receive payments via MTN Mobile Money (MoMo) in Cameroon, Côte d’Ivoire, Rwanda, Uganda and Zambia.
MTN MoMo is a fintech platform providing consumers and businesses with an electronic wallet, enabling electronic transfers and payments as well as access to digital and financial services.
At the end of June 2021, MTN MoMo had 48.9 million active users and 581,514 merchants.
MoMo enables businesses to accept and make payments within the mobile money ecosystem. This new partnership will enable Flutterwave to offer MTN Mobile Money as a payment method to its business customers.
The new partnership will further expand on Flutterwave's previous collaboration with MTN, beyond Uganda and Rwanda – with the potential of deepening adoption of digital payments and e-commerce in Africa, a sector expected to reach $29 billion by 2022, according to Statista.
"Africa has one of the highest growth rates for mobile money adoption and e-commerce in the world. It makes sense that we help provide a seamless payment method to support and ensure African businesses reap the full benefits of the e-commerce boom in the region," said Flutterwave founder and CEO Olugbenga "GB" Agboola about the partnership.
"Our goal has always been to grow a new wave of prosperity in Africa by creating more avenues for businesses in Africa to accept payments. With this partnership, we can achieve this while creating endless possibilities for our customers," Agboola added.
In recent years, Africa has witnessed an explosion in mobile penetration as smartphone adoption has risen rapidly. According to the GSMA, this year Africa will hit the half-billion mark of unique mobile subscribers and the continent will reach 50% subscriber penetration by 2025.
Sub-Saharan Africa alone is responsible for more than 45% of the world's mobile money accounts with the number of account holders exceeding half a billion by 2020, according to Statista.
"As we progress on our journey to becoming the largest fintech platform in Africa, we will empower millions of businesses to embrace e-commerce in our markets to accept digital payments from MoMo consumers. We believe this is an enabler to accelerating digitized payments in Africa," said MTN Group chief digital and fintech officer, Serigne Dioum in a statement.
He said that building strong ecosystems through partnerships is central to MTN's platform strategy and it will continue to invest in expanding the reach of its platform to consumers and businesses in Africa.
— The Staff, Connecting Africa