<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body><div><div style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">This is a good move. I however think the best is to do away with paper based transactions.<br>The current option to input PIN when doing Mpesa deposit should of necessity end the need to also put down your details on a book.<br><br>Regards,<br>Boniface Machuki</div></div><div dir="ltr"><hr><span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: bold;">From: </span><span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"><a href="mailto:kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke">Victor Kapiyo via kictanet</a></span><br><span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: bold;">Sent: </span><span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">7/24/2018 12:05 PM</span><br><span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: bold;">To: </span><span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"><a href="mailto:machukib@gmail.com">machukib@gmail.com</a></span><br><span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: bold;">Cc: </span><span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"><a href="mailto:vkapiyo@gmail.com">Victor Kapiyo</a></span><br><span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: bold;">Subject: </span><span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">[kictanet] Regulator seeks power to license retail mobile cash agents</span><br><br></div><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default"><font color="#20124d" face="tahoma, sans-serif">The Communications Authority (CA), is seeking powers to license all mobile money agents as part of new measures targeting market dominance in the telecommunications sector. </font><span style="color: rgb(32, 18, 77); font-family: tahoma,sans-serif;">Francis Wangusi, the CA director general told parliament Monday that the registration seeks to make the agents neutral so that they can serve the telecoms operators. </span><span style="color: rgb(32, 18, 77); font-family: tahoma,sans-serif;">“The agents are going to be licensed to check misuse of information provided by mobile operators,” Mr Wangusi told the National Assembly’s committee on ICT. </span><font color="#20124d" face="tahoma, sans-serif">Leading telecoms operator, Safaricom, has 160,000 agents for its M-Pesa platform, Airtel money has 30,000 while Telkom’s T-Kash has 7,000.</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><b style="font-family: tahoma,sans-serif;"><font color="#20124d"><br></font></b></div><div class="gmail_default"><font color="#20124d"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif"><a href="https://www.businessdailyafrica.com/news/Regulator-seeks-power-license-mobile-cash-agents/539546-4678402-yl67ycz/index.html">https://www.businessdailyafrica.com/news/Regulator-seeks-power-license-mobile-cash-agents/539546-4678402-yl67ycz/index.html</a> </font><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font color="#20124d"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b><br></b></font></font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font color="#20124d" face="tahoma, sans-serif">We look forward to review the regulations. </font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font color="#20124d"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b><br></b></font></font></div><div class="gmail_default"><b style="font-family: tahoma,sans-serif;"><font color="#20124d">Victor Kapiyo</font></b></div><div><div class="gmail_signature" dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><font color="#351c75" face="tahoma, sans-serif" size="1">Partner | <i>Lawmark Partners LLP</i></font></div><div><font color="#000000" face="tahoma, sans-serif" size="1"><i>Suite No. 8, Centro House, Westlands, Nairobi | </i></font><i style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: tahoma,sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Web: <a href="http://www.lawmark.co.ke" target="_blank">www.lawmark.co.ke</a> </i></div><font color="#000000" face="tahoma, sans-serif" size="1">====================================================<br><i>“Your attitude, not your aptitude, will determine your altitude” Zig Ziglar<br></i></font><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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