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Safaricom bets on local servers to revamp M-Pesa

Kenya: Safaricom’s new M-Pesa platform will go live by the end of this month, raising the stakes in the battle to dominate Kenya’s lucrative mobile money industry.

The new system which will see M-Pesa servers relocated from Germany where they were previously hosted, to Kenya, will allow Safaricom to grow its financial product offering through new upgrades and better functionality.

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