MoneyGram Money Transfer in partnership with Zeepay Ghana has launched the Moneygram 2 MobileMoney service.
The service allows customers to send their remittances directly into any mobile wallet in Ghana. Key mobile wallets include ZeePay wallets; Airtel-Tigo Mobile Money Wallets, Vodafone Mobile Money Wallets, and MTN.
In other words , the service makes it possible for over 11 million Ghanaians to receive money directly into their mobile money wallets nationwide and cash out across over 150,000 Agent network.
The Regional Head, Anglophone West Africa for MoneyGram, Patrick A. Appiah said they partnered Zeepay to launch the MoneyGram 2 Mobile money service in order to improve last mile access.
Mr. Patrick Appiah explained the MoneyGram 2 mobile money service is a platform that gives customers the best money transaction service.
He added the introduction of the MoneyGram 2 mobile money service is to support existing and prospective customers to transfer money wherever they may be and also facilitate mobile banking service among users.
He said in order to access the MoneyGram 2 mobile money service, all you have to do is to have a mobile money account, address and contact of the sender.
Founded in 2014, Zeepay’s key services currently include MM retail payments, digital receipt of international remittances, P2P transfers between banks and mobile money wallets, as well as supporting other third party related payment transactions. Zeepay was awarded StartUp of the Year at the Premium Bank Ghana StartUp Awards in July 2017, and have received over USD 200,000 in angel funding by 2015,” the report further noted.
In June 2017, the company announced a collaboration with Ghana Investment Fund for Electronic Communications, the National Board for Small Scale Industries, and the United Nations Capital Development Fund to launch a Digital for Inclusion program, with the aim of improving Ghana’s digital economy through interconnection which is focused on smallholder cocoa communities and the Zongo communities.
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