NEWS
Kenya based Kopo Kopo partners with
Mastercard to boost transactions
with Diamond Trust Bank as part of its
acquiring strategy in the country.
The Kenyan rollout reinforces the
commitment made by Mastercard
in February to empower over
150,000 merchants in the market.
The Kopo Kopo partnership will help
the technology company achieve
a significant portion of this target.
Additional markets impacted will
include Tanzania, Uganda, Ghana, and
Zimbabwe.
Kopo Kopo will offer the service in partnership with Diamond Trust Bank as part of its acquiring strategy.
Merchant service provider, Kopo Kopo,
announced their partnership with
Mastercard to roll out Masterpass QR
across 11 markets in Sub-Saharan Africa,
impacting over 250,000 micro and small
businesses over the next five years. The
mobile payment solution will deliver an
efficient and secure acceptance solution
for micro, small and medium enterprises
and a convenient consumer experience.
Bank acquirers in partnership with
Kopo Kopo, in the various markets, will
enable previously excluded merchants
to be financially included as part of the
rollout. Merchants in Kenya will be the
first to benefit from the partnership,
with thousands of Kopo Kopo micro,
small and medium enterprises gearing
up to go live with the solution. Kopo
Kopo will offer the service in partnership
Using Masterpass QR, business
owners can increase revenue through
the acceptance of mobile and
digital payments, while reducing
their exposure to the risks and
costs of managing cash. Payment
is instantaneous and guaranteed,
meaning that merchants no longer
need to wait days for transactions to
reflect in their accounts. By partnering
with Mastercard, Kopo Kopo will
remain ahead of the curve, growing
their network with a strong offering
and providing the current merchant
network with the latest and most
secure payment solutions.
Algerian Icosnet launches
UC cloud using Avaya
Aura and Equinox
Avaya and Icosnet have announced a strategic partnership
to jointly provide unified communications technologies
from a cloud platform in Algeria. With growing demand for
advanced connectivity and communications solutions, the
new cloud-based offering will bring innovative technology
consumption models to help drive digital transformation
within organisations in the public and private sectors in this
emerging market. (Left to right) Nagib Reaidy, Avaya; Ali Morsli, Icosnet; Lionel Hamman,
Avaya; Mariem Toumi, Icosnet.
Based on Avaya Aura and Avaya Equinox, the unified
communications cloud-based service offered by Icosnet
provide streamlined, mobile-first communications that are less
complex than many legacy systems. The service will enable
Algerian organisations to leapfrog traditional enterprise
communications models and add advanced capabilities in a hybrid or pure cloud model. For example, organisations
can communications-enable the business applications and
browsers that are used most often within the organisation,
making it easier and faster for employees to communicate
and collaborate with customers, partners and other
colleagues.
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