{"id":229905,"date":"2026-04-09T02:44:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T00:44:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-mtn-completes-ghana-mobile-money-spinoff-to-scale-fintech-unit\/"},"modified":"2026-04-09T02:44:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T00:44:09","slug":"ghana-mtn-completes-ghana-mobile-money-spinoff-to-scale-fintech-unit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-mtn-completes-ghana-mobile-money-spinoff-to-scale-fintech-unit\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana: MTN Completes Ghana Mobile Money Spinoff to Scale Fintech Unit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"60\">MTN Group has completed the separation of its mobile money business in Ghana, as it moves to position fintech as a standalone growth unit. The company said its Ghana subsidiary, Scancom PLC, merged MobileMoney Ltd with a new entity, MobileMoney Fintech Ltd, effective March 31 after regulatory approvals. The new entity will house all mobile money operations in the country.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"32\">MobileMoney Fintech Ltd is jointly owned by MTN Dutch Holdings and the MTN Ghana Fintech Trust, which represents minority&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202604080758.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Ghana\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/ghana\/\">Ghana<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MTN Group has completed the separation of its mobile money business in Ghana, as it moves to position fintech as a standalone growth unit. The company said its Ghana subsidiary, Scancom PLC, merged MobileMoney Ltd with a new entity, MobileMoney Fintech Ltd, effective March 31 after regulatory approvals. The new entity will house all mobile [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":229906,"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":[4507],"tags":[258,256,6222,21009,4508,4509,6261,5108,10130,257,10440,254,53849,13013],"class_list":["post-229905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ghana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-completes","tag-fintech","tag-ghana","tag-ghana-news","tag-mobile","tag-money","tag-mtn","tag-news","tag-scale","tag-south-africa-today","tag-spinoff","tag-unit"],"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\/229905","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\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=229905"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229905\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/229906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}