{"id":226981,"date":"2026-03-16T00:57:35","date_gmt":"2026-03-15T22:57:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-what-rwanda-kenya-fintech-deal-means-for-companies\/"},"modified":"2026-03-16T00:57:35","modified_gmt":"2026-03-15T22:57:35","slug":"kenya-what-rwanda-kenya-fintech-deal-means-for-companies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-what-rwanda-kenya-fintech-deal-means-for-companies\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya: What Rwanda-Kenya Fintech Deal Means for Companies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"28\">A new fintech licensing framework between Rwanda and Kenya is expected to transform the landscape of cross-border business growth, which has traditionally been hampered by high operational costs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"30\">For fintech companies and payment service providers, expanding across multiple African markets has often meant repeating the same licensing and compliance processes in every country, a costly and time-consuming challenge.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"11\"><strong>ALSO<\/strong> READ: <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newtimes.co.rw\/article\/33993\/news\/finance\/rwanda-kenya-sign-deal-to-make-cross-border-payments-easier\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rwanda, Kenya sign deal to make cross-border payments easier<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\n  <span style=\"font-size: 110%;\"><br \/>\nKeep&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202603130381.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 East Africa <a title=\"Kenya\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/east-africa\/kenya\/\">Kenya<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new fintech licensing framework between Rwanda and Kenya is expected to transform the landscape of cross-border business growth, which has traditionally been hampered by high operational costs. For fintech companies and payment service providers, expanding across multiple African markets has often meant repeating the same licensing and compliance processes in every country, a costly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":226982,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[250],"tags":[258,256,9704,7012,21009,4688,430,13155,257,53917,254],"class_list":["post-226981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-companies","tag-deal","tag-fintech","tag-kenya","tag-kenya-news","tag-means","tag-news","tag-rwandakenya","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226981","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=226981"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226981\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/226982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}