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85.8%

85.8% -- market share of non cash merchant payments for LIPA NA M-PESA (Safaricom) (2022)

Name: Market Share Of Non Cash Merchant Payments Statistics
Creator: Lighthouse Intelligence
Published: 2026-09-29

2022 · Central Bank of Kenya

LIPA NA M-PESA holds an 85.8% market share of non-cash payments for ordinary goods and services in Kenya.

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85.8%

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2022

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LIPA NA M-PESA (Safaricom)

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Central Bank of Kenya Primary Tier B

https://bitcoinke.io/2022/04/airtel-subscribers-to-access-safaricom-lipa-na-m-pesa/ ↗

Confidence: 53/100 Vintage: 2022 Channel: Deep Crawl

Source Article

Airtel Subscribers to Access Safaricom ‘LIPA NA M-PESA’ as Kenya Moves to Mobile Money Payments Interoperability

In a move that will let all mobile money subscribers pay for goods and services through its popular TILL and PAYBILL numbers, Kenya’s Safaricom will on April 8, 2022 open its its LiPA NA M-PESA service to rival mobile money players and/or telcos. The new system will remove the hurdle where Airtel su…

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Central Bank of Kenya · Original study ↗

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Kenya mobile money merchant payments market share

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LIPA NA M-PESA (Safaricom): 85.8% market share of non cash merchant payments. Source: Central Bank of Kenya (2022). Via Lighthouse Intelligence -- https://lighthousedata.io/data/lipa-na-mpesa-market-share-2022

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