Visa and Kenya’s Safaricom Launch Virtual Card

Visa and Kenya’s Safaricom launch virtual card to support global digital payments via M-Pesa. The virtual card will enable 30 million M-Pesa users to make cashless payments at Visa’s global network of more than 100 million merchants spread across 200 countries. Users can activate the virtual card through the M-Pesa mobile app or by USSD. Previously, M-Pesa users could only make mobile money payments within M-Pesa’s network of nearly 400,000 merchants.