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Bernard Matthewman, Group Managing Director – Paynet and Sean Moroney, Chairman – AITEC Africa, sign the sponsorship agreement for the 2007 African Banking Technology Conference African Banking Technology Conference. The Paynet Group is the lead sponsor for the conference.
  • Paynet Agree Aitec 2011 Platinum Sponsorship
  • The Paynet Group will again provide the lead sponsorship and support of the Aitec Banking & Mobile Money COMESA conference to be held in Nairobi, early 2011.The 2010 conference was a world class event with more than 500 distinguished delegates and the same number of exhibition visitors. More
  • Congratulations Mrs Nasim Devji, CEO DTB Group
  • The Paynet Group offer deepest congratulations Mrs Nasim Devji, the CEO of DTB Group on being presented the `'2010 Leading African Woman in Business'' award at a prestigious event in Washington. The Africa Investor Group awards recognize managers who excel in running sustainable and socially responsible businesses and fetes exceptional business practices and achievements on the continent. More
  • Paynet and KenCall announce Strategic Partnership during a Press Launch on Tuesday 19th October,2010 .
  • The business services market in Kenya is growing rapidly and today the Paynet Group and KenCall announced a strategic partnership that will create a unique set of services for the Kenyan and East African markets. By combining the strengths of Paynet's transactional services to the financial sector with KenCall's contact centre and analytical capability they are able to develop highly attractive services that can have an immediate and measurable positive impact on a customer's bottom line. More

  • Beating frauders at their own game.
  • Masaline Keya could pass for a police detective. She talks with ease about the intricacies involved in checking fraud. As a Card Center manager at Paynet,a company that monitors Visa and ATM cards for its Pesapoint bank members,she is determined to put frauders out of business. Fraud happens a lot in the card business", she says. Aside from managing the paynet card center,she overseas anti-fraud offices for several banks. More

  • Paynet staff bring joy to House of Hope Children’s home
    Paynet staff visited with the children at House of Hope on the 15th August and had fun as they shared food, played together and spent time with them. The home caters for more than 102 children who have been orphaned by the HIV/AIDS Pandemic in Kenya. The support provides housing, food, water, medicine, healthcare, education, clothing and love to these wonderful children. House of Hope is located in Mlolongo. More

  • The Emergence of Electronic Cheque Processing
    In today’s competitive banking landscape, it is vital to take advantage of emerging technologies to improve business efficiency. Electronic cheque processing is one such technology and is aimed at making cheques acceptance easier, safer and more cost-effective for banks. More

  • Banking & Payments Technology Conference Ends
    The Banking & Payments Technology Conference came to an end on 19th February. The well attended event attracted over 300 delegates and was houseful for most of the conference sessions.More
  • Paynet interconnects CfC-STANBIC Operations
    As a part of the high profile merger of CfC and Stanbic Bank in Kenya there was clearly a need to interconnect the two ATM switches of the respective banks to ensure that customers could immediately benefit from using the(formerly) two ATM networks.More
  • EMV Certification - Leading the Way
  • Paynet has successfully completed EMV (Chip) Acquiring certification for its outsource Visa customer banks who acquire ATM transactions and for its group owned ATM network, PesaPoint. This is a tremendous accomplishment and Paynet is proud to continue to lead in technology adoption in Kenya. The ATM networks managed by Paynet and certified as EMV compliant by Visa are now protected from the shift of liability introduced by Visa which exposes local banks to additional fraud risk and loss through claims made by people using `'chip'' enabled cards on their ATMs. More
  • Paynet Kenya supports Diamond Trust Bank's Regional Rollout
    Paynet Kenya and Diamond Trust Bank has extended the scope of its outsourcing agreements on ATM Network Management and Card Processing to include the bank's related infrastructure in Uganda and Tanzania. More

  • 2008 Banking Technology Conference
    This year's Banking Technology Conference, held over 28 th March – 1 st April attracted 76 speakers, over 90 delegates and 31 local and international exhibitors. More

  • MapSwitch contracts Paynet Kenya to provide Outsource Services
    MapSwitch has commissioned Paynet Kenya to provide Outsourced ATM and Card services. These services will then be offered to Postbank Uganda as part of a broader agreement between the bank and Mapswitch. More

  • Paynet Kenya supports NIC Bank’s Value Added Services to Credit Card customers
    Paynet Kenya has expanded the scope of its agreement with NIC Bank on Outsourced Visa Card Processing by providing a platform to offer electronic and SMS-based value added services to the bank’s credit card holders. More

  • Banking Technology Conference Postponed To April 2008
    AITEC Africa has announced postponement of the African Banking Technology Conference from February to early April this year. The main conference will now run over 1st – 3rd April at the Kenyatta International Conference Centre, with a mini one-day MBA course facilitated by renowned international speaker and banking consultant Joe DiVanna taking place on Friday 28th March. More

  • Paynet makes senior appointments
    Paynet Kenya is pleased to announced the appointment of Julia Matthewman and Laura Frederick as Director of Operations and Projects and Director of Strategic Initiatives (Uganda) respectively. More

  • Paynet Group Sponsors 2008 Regional Banking Technology Conference
    Following the success of this year’s Banking Technology Conference, held in Nairobi in February, the Paynet Group, the region’s leading provider of financial electronic solutions, has confirmed its lead sponsorship of next year’s conference, to be held over 19-21 February. More
  • Fina Bank Outsources Statements Printing function to Paynet Kenya
    Fina Bank has contracted Paynet Kenya to deliver Statement Printing Services on an outsourced basis. This development strategically ensures Fina Bank focuses on its core business, whilst continuing to efficiently provide statements to its customers. More

  • Regional WagePoint Presentations
    Paynet Kenya held a series of presentations in August 2007 for WagePoint, its ATM-based wage payment solution.An ATM was on display at the Nairobi presentations for one-on-one demonstration of the service. Organizations with cash-paid recipients, either as outgrowers or employees were invited to attend. Representatives of Financial Institutions with whom Paynet has been in discussions regarding the service were among invited guests. More

  • Paynet Group participates in FSD Project
    Paynet Group has been selected by Financial Sector Deepening Kenya (FSD Kenya) and the Consultative Group to Assist the Poor (CGAP), under the Kenya Social Protection Payments (SPP) Challenge Fund to develop prototypes for payment solutions to deliver proposed new Government social protection schemes.More

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