{"id":153780,"date":"2022-12-28T21:23:34","date_gmt":"2022-12-29T03:23:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/12\/kenya-case-study-part-i-m-pesa-story"},"modified":"2022-12-28T21:23:34","modified_gmt":"2022-12-29T03:23:34","slug":"kenya-case-study-part-i-m-pesa-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/12\/kenya-case-study-part-i-m-pesa-story","title":{"rendered":"Kenya Case Study Part I: M-PESA story"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/QlZuKwnsAS4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cM-PESA\u201d<\/strong>: that is a name in global fintech history that can never be erased. Not that anybody would want to. Forever it will be the perfect example of a viable financial ecosystem based on rules unthinkable before. A living masterpiece that was created by a mosaic of unique circumstances, choices and risks taken at a particular time and place, and that continues to evolve in the changes it <a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/what-the-money\/cash-less-africa-a9bc25b6bc1d\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">brought to the country<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Since I\u2019m neither a local, nor deeply involved with the <a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/what-the-money\/diverse-africa-a-bit-of-geography-8671a810060f\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">African markets<\/a> (yet), I would not dare to simply impose my DIY analytics on my readers. Instead, I invite you to listen to my conversation with M-PESA\u2019s own Kevin Amateshe reflecting on Kenya\u2019s digital financial services space, M-PESA\u2019s role, the past, present and future: <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/QlZuKwnsAS4\">https:\/\/youtu.be\/QlZuKwnsAS4<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Carrying on from the video part, let us have <strong>a deeper look at M-PESA<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cM-PESA\u201d: that is a name in global fintech history that can never be erased. Not that anybody would want to. Forever it will be the perfect example of a viable financial ecosystem based on rules unthinkable before. A living masterpiece that was created by a mosaic of unique circumstances, choices and risks taken at a [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":534,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-153780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-finance","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153780","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/534"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=153780"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153780\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}