Airtel Money is preparing to list in London as the African mobile payments business looks to tap into a market where its Indian-owned parent is already well known to investors.

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Airtel Money is among Africa’s biggest mobile financial services platforms, serving 56.5mn customers across 14 countries.

Yep, it’s that time of the year when you need to renew the Airtel MasterCard (AirtelMoney Global pay by MasterCard) that you activated as soon as you heard

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Mobile money adoption has been on a steady rise over the past few years, and it’s clear from how many Ugandans use it for daily transactions. Add in the

In the wake of Jim Spire Ssentongo’s #StopAirtelTheft campaign that is attracting intense public scrutiny, Airtel Uganda’s PR manager, David Birungi,

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“I haven’t received anything,” I told him.

February 2025—Airtel Uganda with no official announcement yet, has restored its Airtel Money Virtual MasterCard service after its temporary closure in May 2023. Initially launched in January 2021, the service, now AirtelMoney Global Pay by MasterCard, had been unavailable for nearly four years, with Airtel previously responding to customer inquiries with, “… the service is unavailable, however, works are underway to have it resolved” but is now back online. With its return, Airtel customers can once again use the virtual Airtel Money MasterCard for global online payments, subscriptions, and shopping on platforms that accept MasterCard.