Interswitch is the leading ATM/POS network in Nigeria and is the power behind the debit/ATM cards issued by over 20 banks in Nigeria including Guaranty Trust Bank, UBA, Intercontinental Bank, First Bank, Union Bank, Ecobank etc.
To make payment online using an Interswitch card, all that is needed is the card number and PIN. This makes [...]

Oui, e-gold now offers a French version their popular e-currency website. This would bring more folks from francophone countries on-board though some were using it even when it was in English only.
This is long overdue if you asked me. All the same, c’est tout bien.

I was plesantly surprised last night to discover that ATMs that support Visa cards are now available in Nigeria.
According to Visa’s ATM locator website, some ATMs of the following banking institutions: support Visa, Plus and Visa Electron cards:
UBA PLC (A COMMERCIAL BANK) (405)*
AFRIBANK NIGERIA PLC (1)
FIDELITY BANK PLC (1)
This is good news for Nigerians who [...]

Graphcard sounded promising when it was first launched. It was poised to meet the needs of users in Africa as well as other “third world countries” were credit cards are not widely available to the general populace. Graphcard has been doing fine somewhat all this while but something that is really putting me off these [...]

With its 75% acquisition of Ghana’s Second National Operator (SNO) - Western Telesystems Limited [WESTEL] from the government of Ghana for US$120 million, Celtel now has an operation in Ghana. Celtel International is the African arm of Zain.
According to Zain’s website:
[...] Zain (formerly MTC Group) acquired African mobile telecoms leader Celtel International B.V in May [...]

Not long after Google announced and launched their Google Checkout offering that Paypal increased the speed at which they introduced innovations. I dealt more with the Google/Paypal comparism in an earlier post.
The essence of this post however, is to highlight the fact that some online shoppers would by far prefer using the checkout services, to [...]

So you run an online business or are an affiliate of a big online MLM or you want to promote your blog and have a low budget and thus cannot advertise with the big boys on Adwords, ValueClick Media, DoubleClick and other big ad networks? Not to worry. You can still get a piece [...]

Paypal Nigeria: How to open a paypal account in Nigeria? Why Paypal is not available in Nigeria.

A few years ago, there was no single country on the African continent where one could send/receive money online via Paypal. Not one. Then there was South Africa. A few countries were added, as most were later covered. Even now, all the African countries can only send - they cannot receive money via Paypal.
Any enquiry [...]

This blog post is a direct response to Erik Hersman’s blog post: The problem with e-commerce and online payments in Africa.
Erik Hersman, a fellow African blogger, shared his thoughts about the need for an African e-payment system. He starts with a lamentation that is indeed true:
A lack of true online payment options is crippling African [...]