Mobile payments platform M-Pesa has passed the 50-million user mark, making the Vodacom and Safaricom-run provider the first to do so on the continent, but MTN is hot on its heels to take the crown as the largest player.

SA’s telecoms giants have been eyeing mobile payments and digital financial services, collectively known as fintech, in Africa as an immense untapped market...

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