<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif">It would be interesting to first take stock of how mobile money transfers has been like since the introduction of interoperability, to determine the value addition and what could be done differently.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif">As payments world-wide trends lean towards more open systems, Kenya is still in its infancy stages when dealing with interoperability and it remains to be seen how well we transition into more interconnected systems.</div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><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 dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><p 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class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, 25 Feb 2022 at 09:50, Victor Kapiyo via KICTANet <<a href="mailto:kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke">kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;color:rgb(32,18,77)"><span style="color:rgb(77,77,77);font-family:"pt serif","times new roman",Times,serif;font-size:18px;font-variant-ligatures:normal">The Central Bank of Kenya (CBK) will launch a national payment system that will force Safaricom </span><span style="color:rgb(77,77,77);font-family:"pt serif","times new roman",Times,serif;font-size:18px;font-variant-ligatures:normal">to accept cash from rival firms such as Airtel on its Lipa na M-Pesa, enabling a seamless transfer of money through merchants.</span><br clear="all"></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;color:rgb(32,18,77)"><span style="color:rgb(77,77,77);font-family:"pt serif","times new roman",Times,serif;font-size:18px;font-variant-ligatures:normal"><br></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;color:rgb(32,18,77)"><span style="color:rgb(77,77,77);font-family:"pt serif","times new roman",Times,serif;font-size:18px;font-variant-ligatures:normal">Read more: <a href="https://www.businessdailyafrica.com/bd/markets/market-news/cbk-seeks-linking-lipa-na-m-pesa-with-airtel-3728538" target="_blank">https://www.businessdailyafrica.com/bd/markets/market-news/cbk-seeks-linking-lipa-na-m-pesa-with-airtel-3728538</a> </span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;color:rgb(32,18,77)"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;color:rgb(32,18,77)"><span style="color:rgb(77,77,77);font-family:"pt serif","times new roman",Times,serif;font-size:18px;font-variant-ligatures:normal"><br></span></div><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><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><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><b><font color="#20124d">Victor Kapiyo</font></b></span></div><div><font face="tahoma, sans-serif" size="1" color="#351c75">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 face="tahoma, sans-serif" size="1" color="#000000">====================================================<br><i>“Your attitude, not your aptitude, will determine your altitude” Zig 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