NextBillion - An Initiative of the William Davidson Institute at the University of Michigan

Wednesday, November 28, 2018

By Bismark Awusah

Payments technology platform, Visa, in partnership with leading Ghanaian banks, announced the launch of Visa-on-mobile, its innovative mobile payment service in Ghana.

From today, the partnership commences with four Ghanaian banks which have either enabled Visa-on-mobile on their mobile banking applications and/or have acquired merchants to be able to accept the service.

CAL Bank and Zenith Bank customers will access the service via their banking application.

Ecobank customers have the USSD and banking application option while GTBank customers will access via USSD. Merchants aggregated through “ExpressPay” will also accept Visa-on-mobile.

Photo courtesy of Simon Berry.