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Mastercard Partners With Vodafone Fiji to Drive Financial Inclusion and Empowerment
Mastercard has partnered with Vodafone Fiji to provide a new way of paying in-store and online, both at home and abroad, with the launch of M-PAiSA Mastercard. This initiative will give hundreds of thousands of Fijians access to digital payments through Mastercard’s global payment network of over 100 million merchants worldwide.
Vodafone Fiji currently has over 580,000 registered M-PAiSA customers with more than 335,000 of these customers actively using the service every month. Based on current trends, M-PAiSA is expected to process over FJ$3 billion in transactions in 2023.
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