In its first acquisition ever, BitPesa is moving to expand its reach and cut costs. The blockchain payments platform in Africa and Europe, which now facilitates nearly $20 million in transactions per ...

The financial services industry used to exist according to a truism: customers were more likely to get a divorce than change their bank. Today, though, a number of fintech startups are beginning to ...

Kenyan Bitcoin exchange BitPesa has raised a $1.1 million in a second round of funding that was led by Pantera Capital and included Crypto Currency Partners, Stephens Investment Management, Bitcoin ...

After living in Zurich and London working as an investment banker for Credit Suisse, Elizabeth Rossiello, currently chief executive and founder of BitPesa, a sub-Saharan African B2B and foreign ...

Amid rapid growth, African payments company BitPesa has received follow-up funding to its Series A led by Greycroft Partners, the venture capital firm with experience investing in payment companies ...

German-based SME lending platform Bitbond and African payment services provider BitPesa announced on Monday they have formed a new partnership to improve access to African SMEs financing. Bitbond ...

One bitcoin start-up is building what it hopes will become a template for using digital currencies in the developing world, a much-talked-about market for cryptocurrencies. It's called BitPesa, it's ...

BitPesa, the Kenyan remittance service that enables users abroad to send money home through Bitcoin, ended its beta testing phase to celebrate its official launch last week. The company, based in ...