So Young: M-PESA's 18th birthday

Issue 701: 1 April 2025

Apr 01, 2025

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In this week’s deep dive newsletter we celebrate M-PESA’s recent 18th birthday with a guest blog from Jeremy Light’s Agenda:Payments newsletter - huge thanks to Jeremy for allowing Payments:Unpacked to feature “So Young: M-PESA's 18th birthday in Kenya” as a guest blog.

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A guest post by

Jeremy Light

I have had a long career in payments - with a global management consultancy, Silicon Valley tech company and my own Fintech start-up.