M-Pesa registers 614 mn transaction in December

British telecom operator Vodafone today said that its mobile wallet M-Pesa registered 614 million transactions in December.

"As Vodafone marks the 10th anniversary of M-Pesa, the world's leading mobile money service, it was revealed that a record 614 million M-Pesa transactions were processed during December 2016," the company said in a statement.

Vodafone now offers M-Pesa services in 10 countries including India, Kenya, Albania, Egypt, Ghana and Tanzania.

As of the end of December 2016, M-Pesa claims to have almost 29.5 million active customers through a network of more than 287,400 agents, the statement said.