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Within the first half of 2025, MTN’s MoMo, the monetary arm of Africa’s largest telecom operator, MTN, processed $2.1 billion in worldwide remittances throughout 14 African markets, proof that its fintech arm is now not only a facet hustle. And now it desires to save lots of Africa from its fee chaos. 

The plan? Construct a fintech universe that runs on connection. MoMo desires to transcend remittances and construct the pipes for a very borderless Africa, the place funds circulation freely between nations with out the standard friction or charges.

Can it do that? MTN’s MoMo already serves 283 million customers and processes over $1.1 trillion in yearly transactions. Within the first half of 2025, MTN disbursed $1.3 billion in microloans and has over 2 million folks in its service provider community. It’s now opening its rails to different startups by means of MoMo OpenAPI. 

However the dream isn’t all clean transfers. Africa’s monetary scene remains to be a patchwork, riddled with excessive charges, with charges averaging over 8% per transaction, and fragmented methods, with every nation having its personal rails, wallets, and requirements. The corporate acknowledges that over 350 million Africans are nonetheless excluded from the monetary panorama. 

After which there’s the competitors. Each participant from OPay to Wave and Safaricom’s M-PESA desires a slice of the fintech future. However MoMo is re-engineering itself as a digital-first fintech platform, aiming to ship intuitive, customer-centric experiences. It’s betting that scale and ease will win.