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Safaricom upgrades Lipa Na M-Pesa with payments card

Safaricom Chief Executive Bob Collymore. (Photo: Wilberforce Okwiri, Standard)

Safaricom has launched a new payment card in a move likely to stoke competition in the electronic payments sector.

The service introduced Wednesday will see consumers pay for goods and services through the M-Pesa 1 tap service at shopping outlets and pay merchants in an improvement to the Lipa Na M-Pesa product.

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