Airtel Africa Mobile Money Unit Receives Sh10 billion Investment from Mastercard

Global payments company, Mastercard, is set to invest Sh10 billion ($100 million) in Airtel Africa’s mobile money business.

The telco’s mobile money unit is one of the biggest financial services in Africa allowing users access to a mobile wallet, loan and virtual credit cards as well as giving support for international money transfer.

Airtel Africa, which is valued at $2.65 billion also got a $200 million investment from TPG fund in the last two weeks.

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In 2019, Airtel and Mastercard partnered to allow the telco’s 100 million subscribers in 14 countries access Mastercard’s global network.

The two companies said they have now “extended commercial agreements and signed a new commercial framework which will deepen their partnerships across numerous geographies and areas including card issuance, payment gateway, payment processing, merchant acceptance and remittance solutions, amongst others.”

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