Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. M-KOPA, the asset financing platform that offers underbanked African customers access to “productive assets” and the ability to ...

Across East Africa more than 300,000 households previously without electricity are powering homes and devices with solar panels and using mobile money to pay for it. Their power provider is M-KOPA, an ...

Fintech pioneer deploys $2 billion in credit to Africa's "Every Day Earners" - micro entrepreneurs invisible to traditional banks The company's 2025 Impact Report reveals that 9 out of 10 active ...

A 2019 World Bank report says 85% of Africans live on less than $5.50 per day. A large percentage of these adults are unbanked and underbanked; thus, they don’t have access to credit and can’t afford ...

BARCELONA, Spain--(BUSINESS WIRE)--At Mobile World Congress, Mastercard and M-KOPA today announced a partnership that will provide Africans living without electricity a simple way to light up their ...

Africa-focused asset financing firm M-Kopa has disbursed more than $2 billion in credit to 7 million customers in five countries since it was founded, it said in a report published Monday. The company ...

M-KOPA Nigeria will introduce its pay-as-you-go data bundles in March as part of its 2026 expansion, signaling a new phase in the company’s mission to provide ...

Tom Opiyo is the best-performing salesperson at M-Kopa Solar, a Kenyan company selling solar power systems to the very poor. Watching him work, it’s not hard to see why. Opiyo is a pastor who used to ...

Battery indicator somewhat inaccurate. Port status indicators don't always work. If something goes wrong, battery isn't "user-replaceable." As I came off a hot and dusty Nairobi street into the ...

In rural Kenya, people walk for miles in the blistering sun after work just to watch television in the nearest town. At 7pm, in the village restaurants, the music turns off, and the news turns on. In ...