<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div>Listers</div><div><br></div><div>I’ve always advocated for Kenyan Companies looking beyond the country to Africa at least. Here’s an interesting story of Sonatel, the Senegalese Telco that seems to be making waves in the investment circles. A snippet of the story below:-</div><div><br></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">For Sonatel, there is an integrated regulatory and economic environment as well as a regional presence and availability of other Orange Group subsidiaries with which to have direct partnerships for purposes of remittances in SSA.</span></div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1.5rem 0px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">It also notes Safaricom is increasingly doing more transactions on M-Pesa that relate to businesses as opposed to withdrawals by individuals. </span></p></div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1.5rem 0px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“We expect revenues to suffer as business transactions gain traction at a lower transaction charge than the declining withdrawals,” said Exotix.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1.5rem 0px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Read on:-</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1.5rem 0px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></p></div><div><a href="https://www.businessdailyafrica.com/markets/marketnews/Exotix-tips-foreigners-to-favour-firm-over-Safaricom/3815534-4282002-f8gnyuz/index.html?utm_source=traqli&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=bdafrica_newsletter">https://www.businessdailyafrica.com/markets/marketnews/Exotix-tips-foreigners-to-favour-firm-over-Safaricom/3815534-4282002-f8gnyuz/index.html?utm_source=traqli&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=bdafrica_newsletter</a></div><br><br><div id="AppleMailSignature"><div><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.294118); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.231373);"><b>Ali Hussein</b></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.294118); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.231373);"><b>Principal</b></span></div><div><b style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Hussein & Associates</b></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; ">+254 0713 601113 </div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><br></div><div><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Twitter: @AliHKassim</span></p><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font></font></span><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Skype: abu-jomo</span></p><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">LinkedIn: <a href="http://ke.linkedin.com/in/alihkassim" target="_blank">http://ke.linkedin.com/in/alihkassim</a></span></p><font><br></font></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit." ~ Aristotle</span></div><div><br></div><div><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.294118); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.231373);"><br></span></div>Sent from my iPad</div></body></html>