Kenya scooped the top price in the Visa Everywhere competition. Visa everywhere is an initiative that tasks startups to solve payments and commerce challenges of tomorrow. Through this program, VISA helps the startups to enhance their own product propositions and at the same time provide solutions for Visa’s network of partners.
The program which was started in 2015 is currently in its 3rd year and has expanded to be a global event. So far, over 2,100 participating startups that have raised over USD. 2 Billion In funding. The program is active in 6 regions including, North America, Latin America, Europe, Asia, the Middle East and Africa.
Kenya has been on the forefront when it comes to creation of fintech systems. Do not take my words for it. Watch this; countries are coming to benchmark in Kenya on mobile banking and fintech.
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