China’s Huawei is the brain behind Safaricom’s Ziidi platform
Huawei served as a co-developer of the Ziidi solution and a strategic partner for Safaricom’s M-PESA product ecosystem...
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Huawei has been revealed as the technical backbone behind Safaricom’s highly successful Ziidi wealth platform, which has surpassed 4.3 million users in Kenya.
- The Ziidi platform, co-developed by Huawei, integrates with M-PESA for investments starting at KES 100.
- Safaricom and Huawei jointly received a GSMA Global Mobile Award (GLOMO) for Best FinTech & Digital Commerce Innovation for Ziidi.
- Huawei's cloud-native distributed architecture provides 99.999% platform reliability and infinite scalability for a seamless user experience and regulatory compliance.
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