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Coronavirus pandemic spurs uptake in online payments

The Covid-19 pandemic has brought to the fore the need to integrate online payment models into business.

Over 13 years since M-Pesa was founded in Kenya, online payment have failed to gain the traction they were expected to. Maybe time has finally come for the founders’ dreams to be fully realised.

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