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Tola expands its African footprint with the addition of Lesotho, bringing total operational coverage to 24
Mobile money adoption in Lesotho is strong, with approximately two-thirds of adults using mobile wallets for everyday financial transactions. Leading services such as M-Pesa and EcoCash are widely used forpeer-to-peer transfers, bill payments, and merchant transactions playing a vital role in extending financial access to all.
Scaling Africa’s Mobile Payments: Tola Mobile on Real-Time Growth, Stability, and iGaming Expansion - Part II
As Africa’s iGaming market continues to accelerate, the second part of our conversation with Tola Mobile CPO Simon Pepper delves deeper into the technical, regulatory, and behavioural forces shaping real-time payment experiences across the African continent. From fraud safeguards to cross-border opportunities, Pepper unpacks what operators must prepare for as mobile money evolves and competition intensifies.
Tola Mobile Expands Platform to Include Card Payments
Tola Mobile announces expansion into card payments as it strengthens its pan-African payment orchestration platform. Tola Mobile, a leading provider of mobile money integration across Sub- Saharan Africa, has expanded its platform to include card payments, giving businesses a unified way to accept and manage digital payments across the continent.
Tola Mobile Adds Card Payments to Its Africa-Wide Mobile Money Platform
Mobile money integration specialist Tola Mobile is expanding its payment platform in Africa by adding card payment capabilities.
Scaling Africa’s Mobile Payments: Tola Mobile on Real-Time Growth, Stability, and iGaming Expansion - Part I
Our Chief Product Officer, Simon Pepper, recently sat down with SiGMA News to discuss how Tola Mobile is driving real-time growth for Africa’s rapidly expanding mobile payments and iGaming sectors. With operations now spanning 23 Sub-Saharan markets, Simon explains how we’ve evolved our platform into a unified orchestration layer that delivers stable, predictable, and high-performance mobile money experiences across highly diverse environments.
Sigma Africa 2025 - "FinTech reshaping Gaming" interview
At SiGMA Africa 2025, Simon Pepper, Chief Product Officer of Tola Mobile, outlined the company’s direct settlement model, which is transforming payments in the gaming industry.
Insights from Simon Pepper about The Future of Mobile Payments and Betting in Africa
In an exclusive interview with iGaming AFRIKA, Simon Pepper, Chief Product Officer at Tola Mobile Ltd, shared his insights on the alignment between mobile payment platforms and the rapidly developing betting community in Africa.
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Customers of Tola's services are merchants coming from all industries, including e-Commerce, Transport & Logistics, Insurance, FinTech and Sportsbook based Gambling & Gaming.
Tola Mobile was formed and has been processing traffic since 2015. In early 2022 we departed our existing Group, through an MBO with funding through a consortium of Investors.
Tola Mobile operates with in-region presence throughout Africa and a core Technology team in Dublin, Ireland.
The Tola Senior Management Team and Executives have deep industry experience each with 25 to 30 years in the IT and Telecoms industry from large multi-national publicly traded organizations and start-up enterprises.