Safaricom has significantly upgraded its M-Pesa platform, enhancing its transaction processing capacity and incorporating advanced technologies to meet the growing demands of Africa's digital economy.

• The upgrade boosts M-Pesa's processing capacity from 4,500 to 6,000 transactions per second, with scalability up to 12,000.
• This enhancement, dubbed Fintech 2.0, introduces a new core system built on cloud-native architecture.
• The platform now integrates artificial intelligence for real-time monitoring, fraud detection, and system self-healing, reducing the risk of outages.