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<\/p>\nThe upgrade ensures the platform remains robust enough to support Africa\u2019s digital economy, while keeping its core promise, which is to make financial services simple, accessible and inclusive for all.<\/p>\n
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Safaricom\u00a0<\/a> has announced the most significant upgrade of the M-PESA\u00a0<\/a> platform since 2015 marking a major milestone in the service\u2019s 18-year journey of driving financial inclusion and digital. transformation.<\/p>\n The upgrade introduces Fintech 2.0, a next-generation core platform designed to strengthen resilience, expand capacity, and unlock advanced, AI-driven innovation. This transformation positions M-PESA to meet the growing demands of Africa\u2019s digital economy while preparing for future opportunities.<\/p>\n \u201cThis upgrade is a bold investment in the future of M-PESA and reaffirmation of our commitment to innovation, resilience and customer trust. By moving to Fintech 2.0, we are unlocking a platform that not only scales to meet today\u2019s demands but also anticipates tomorrow\u2019s opportunities.\u201d<\/p>\n -Dr. Peter Ndegwa, Group CEO, Safaricom<\/p>\n The new M-PESA Core will expand capacity from 4,500 to 6,000 transactions per second, with the potential to scale up to 12,000 transactions as demand grows. It will also introduce an active-active architecture across multiple hosting sites, guaranteeing higher resilience and minimal service interruption.<\/p>\n The platform embeds advanced artificial intelligence to strengthen fraud detection, enable self-healing, and power real-time monitoring. Its cloud-native foundation ensures higher performance, instant scalability, and faster deployment of new products.<\/p>\n Over the years, M-PESA has grown from a simple money transfer service into Africa\u2019s largest fintech ecosystem, powering payments, savings, credit, insurance, remittances, and e-commerce. The launch of Fintech 2.0 is designed to sustain this growth and prepare the platform for the future, enabling Safaricom to deliver smarter, faster and more secure financial solutions to individuals and businesses alike.<\/p>\n With this migration, M-PESA is laying the foundation for the next generation of innovation. The upgrade ensures the platform remains robust enough to support Africa\u2019s digital economy, while keeping its core promise, which is to make financial services simple, accessible and inclusive for all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The upgrade ensures the platform remains robust enough to support Africa\u2019s digital economy, while keeping its core promise,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":35882,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[61,60,202,80],"class_list":["post-35881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mobile","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-mobile","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35881","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35881"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35881\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}