{"id":301629,"date":"2025-12-06T05:09:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-06T05:09:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/301629\/"},"modified":"2025-12-06T05:09:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-06T05:09:09","slug":"cbk-plans-to-slash-mobile-money-fees-by-more-than-half","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/301629\/","title":{"rendered":"CBK plans to slash mobile money fees by more than half"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                            <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/ET7pFMvSqoCsCeqpxtLixMhJoTUEUOkhT1N2ei3f.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"500\" alt=\"\"\/>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>Central Bank Of Kenya(CBK) on Haile Selasie Avenue in Nairobi.[Wilbrforce Okwiri,Standard]<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p class=\"card-text\">The\u00a0Central Bank of Kenya (CBK)\u00a0plans to slash the cost of sending money by mobile\u00a0phone, a vital service used by millions of Kenyans\u00a0daily.&#13;\n<\/p>\n<p>The move aims to halve transaction fees within four years to cushion households and boost the use of formal financial services.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Get Full Access for Ksh299\/Week <\/p>\n<p>\n                        Uncover the stories others won\u2019t tell. Subscribe now for exclusive access\n                    <\/p>\n<p>                    Unlimited access to all premium content<br \/>\n                    Uninterrupted ad-free browsing experience<br \/>\n                    Mobile-optimized reading experience<br \/>\n                    Weekly Newsletters<br \/>\n                    MPesa, Airtel Money and Cards accepted<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; &#13; Central Bank Of Kenya(CBK) on Haile Selasie Avenue in Nairobi.[Wilbrforce Okwiri,Standard] &#13; &#13; The\u00a0Central Bank of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":301630,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[121135,67887,2306,121136,86,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-301629","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mobile","8":"tag-central-bank-of-kenyamobile-money","9":"tag-m-pesa","10":"tag-mobile","11":"tag-mobile-transfers-money","12":"tag-technology","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom","15":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301629","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=301629"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301629\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/301630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=301629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=301629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=301629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}