The Chinese people have transverse all the World making their presence to be felt by each and everyone. In Kenya right now almost everything is associated with them.
Their presence ,their population is just on another level. Some people are even thinking that the government might be having plans to add them as a tribe in Kenya.
Apart from roads, fish and other beautiful things you see them busy building in Nairobi, they have an online App that is antagonizing other social media platforms.
WeChat, What is WeChat?
is a Chinese multi-purpose messaging, social media and mobile payment app developed by Tencent. It was first released in 2011, and by 2018 it was one of the world’s largest standalone mobile apps by monthly active users,with over 1 billion monthly active users (902 million daily active users).
Described as one of the world’s most powerful apps by Forbes, it is also known as China’s “app for everything” and a “super app” because of its wide range of functions and platforms.
In the 2018 Berkshire Hathaway annual shareholders meeting, Charlie Munger identified WeChat as one of the few potential competitors to Visa, Mastercard and American Express.
In November 2018, the Tencent-run messenger unveils a partnership with Japan’s Line chat app on mobile payments. The tie-up allows Japanese brick-and-mortar merchants with a Line Pay terminal to process WeChat Pay transactions directly. Instead of going through the hassle of currency swaps, a Chinese customer can simply summon the WeChat app and pay by scanning a QR code the retailer presents.
They are now working with Safaricom as one is able to send money direct to China using WeChat App.
The money transfer has been made possible through Family Bank’s partnership with SimbaPay, a financial tech firm based in London.
The initiative will see millions of M-Pesa users send money to their friends or family in China who use WeChat, which has more than a billion subscribers.
Users wishing to send money to China will use the dedicated PayBill number 261059 on M-Pesa. The number belongs to Family Bank. The recipient’s number is entered as the account number after entering the PayBill number. Upon the completion of the transaction, the money can be accessed through WeChat’s mobile wallet.
Do you have the App ? Don’t wait run to Play Store and download the App for free then try it. Let us know what you feel about it.