{
  "id": 1113221,
  "title": "How Safaricom Tap to Pay will change the way Kenyans pay using M-PESA",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/15/how-safaricom-tap-to-pay-will-change-the-way-kenyans-pay-using-m-pesa",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-08-15T20:28:20.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "People Daily Kenya",
    "slug": "people-daily-kenya",
    "url": "https://peopledaily.digital/insights/how-safaricom-tap-to-pay-will-change-the-way-kenyans-pay-using-m-pesa"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Safaricom’s Tap to Pay could change how millions of Kenyans pay for everyday goods and services by allowing customers to complete M-PESA transactions by simply tapping their phones instead of manually entering a merchant’s till number. The new feature, added to the M-PESA Business App used by Lipa na M-PESA merchants, is designed to make […]",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}