In an effort to offer more trading and payment options across Africa, Paxful has added the Mukuru money card onto its platform.
Mukuru is a money card and remittance service allows users to send money and cash out from a variety of payout locations including banks and mobile money outlets.
Users do not need a bank account to use Mukuru. The service is available on both Whatsapp and USSD. A Mukuru card is also available for payment services.
Some of the countries Mukuru is currently available at include:
- Bangladesh
- Botswana
- Cameroon
- DRC (Congo)
- eSwatini
- Ethiopia
- Ghana
- India
- Kenya
- Lesotho
- Malawi
- Mozambique
- Namibia
- Nigeria
- Pakistan
- South Africa
- Tanzania
- Uganda
- Zambia
- Zimbabwe
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Some of the Mukuru payout points and partners in Africa include:
- Send Money Home (Botswana)
- Moneytrans Money Transfer (Cameroon, DRC, & Ghana)
- Finca (DRC)
- Inter Africa Bureau De Change (DRC, Lesotho, South Africa & Zambia)
- Absa (Kenya & South Africa)
- PL Mobile (DRC)
- Express Global Money Transfer (Ethiopia & India)
- Standard Bank (Kenya, Lesotho, Mozambique & South Africa)
- ABC Bank (Kenya)
- Bank of Africa (Kenya)
- Bank of Baroda (Kenya)
- Barclays (Kenya & Zimbabwe)
- CFC Stanbic (Kenya, Nigeria, Uganda & Zimbabwe)
- Citibank (Kenya)
- Cooperative Bank of Kenya (Kenya)
- Development Bank of Kenya (Kenya)
- K-rep Bank (Kenya)
- KCB (Kenya)
- CBA (Kenya & Tanzania)
- SBM (Kenya)
- Standard Chartered (Kenya & Zimbabwe)
- M-PESA (Kenya, Lesotho, Mozambique & Tanzania)
- National Bank (Kenya)
- Gualf Africa Bank (Kenya)
- I&M Bank (Kenya)
- GT Bank (Kenya)
- DTB (Kenya & Nigeria)
- NIC Bank (Kenya)
- Housing Finance (Kenya)
- GIRO (Kenya)
- MetBank (Kenya & Zimbabwe)
- Consolidated Bank (Kenya)
- UBA (Kenya)
- Prime Bank (Kenya)
- Victorial Commercial Bank (Kenya)
- Oriental Commercial Bank (Kenya)
- Jamii Bora (Kenya)
- Bank of India (Kenya)
- Orange Booths (Malawi, Mozambique, Zambia & Zimbabwe)
- Zoona (Malawi & Zambia)
- Investment Bank (Malawi)
- Mpamba (Malawi)
- Post.Net (Malawi)
- TNM (Malawi)
- MKesh (Mozambique)
- BankABC (Mozambique)
- MyBucks (Mozambique)
- Magnet Bureau De Change (Namibia)
- EcoBank (Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria & Zimbabwe)
- Fidelity Bank (Kenya & Nigeria)
- Paga (Nigeria)
- FCMB (Nigeria)
- Bank of Athens (South Africa)
- Investec Bank (South Africa)
- Bidvest Bank (South Africa)
- Post Office (South Africa)
- Capitec Bank (South Africa)
- NedBank (South Africa)
- First National Bank (South Africa)
- Airtel (Kenya and Tanzania)
- Tigo (Tanzania)
- Zantel (Tanzania)
- Halo Pesa (Tanzania)
- The Bed Shop (Zambia)
- Cabs Old Mutual (Zimbabwe)
- CBZ Bank (Zimbabwe)
- FMC Finance (Zimbabwe)
- Metro Peech (Zimbabwe)
- MBCA Bank (Zimbabwe)
- OK (Zimbabwe)
- POSB (Zimbabwe)
- NMB Bank (Zimbabwe)
- Steward Bank (Zimbabwe)
- ZB Bank (Zimbabwe)
- Spar (Zimbabwe)
- AgriBank (Zimbabwe)
The addition of Mukuru adds more options for traders on Paxful across Africa making it one of the most diverse P2P platfroms on the African continent.