MoMo @ 10: MTN Honour Stakeholders

MTN Mobile Money Limited brings its 10 th anniversary to a memorable end with stakeholder awards and dinner at Kempinski Hotel on 13 th December, 2019.

Key partners including individuals and institutions were awarded for their excellent role in sustaining the MTN mobile money (MoMo) brand to its present success.

The Pioneering MoMo Partner Bank awards were won by Fidelity Bank, Ecobank, GT Bank, Access Bank, UBA, UMB, Zenith Bank, and Stanbic Bank.

Republic Bank and First Atlantic Bank took home the MoMo Emerging bank awards. While MoMo Partner Bank Frontrunner award was won by Fidelity Bank.

IT Consortium and CoreNet picked the MoMo Fintech Pioneer awards. Also, the Most Innovative and Supportive Fintech Partner went to IT Consortium.

Similarly, AppN Mobile Solutions won the Emerging and Innovative Fintech Partner award.

Additionally, First MoMo Advance and First MoMo Bill Payment, First Momo School Fee, and Most Supportive MoMo Merchant awards were respectively picked by Milife Insurance, MultiChoice’s DStv, Ghana National College, and Star Oil Company.

Gideon Osei Amoako took home the Momo Patron award. While Madam Elly Ohene Adu who used to work at the Bank of Ghana (BoG) won the MoMo Power Broker award.

Dr Settor Amediku, the Head of Payment Systems Department at the BoG picked the MoMo Regulatory Influencer award.

Eli Hini who has been described as the “Godfather of Mobile Money in Ghana” was recognized for his yeoman role in spearheading the growth of MoMo in the country.

Mr Hini who is also the General Manager of MTN Mobile Money was adjudged as the MoMo Trailblazer.While MTN’s Vice President of the expanded Southern & East Africa and Ghana (SEAGHA), Ebenezer Twum Asante was awarded the MoMo Game-changer Award.Bruno Akpaka won the Chief MoMo Master Minder award. A Deputy Minister of Communications, George Andah won the MoMo Brand Builder award.Addressing the evening gathering under the theme, “MoMo@10, Making Life Simple,” General Manager of MTN Mobile Money, Eli Hini recounted the journey of MoMo. The MoMo Journey He said the Mobile Money service (MoMo) as we now call it, began when MTN, ventured into this area of using the mobile phone as a tool to undertake financial transactions. After discussions with critical stakeholders, we launched Mobile Money service in 2009 under the leadership of MTN Ghana’s CEO, Brett Goschen. Tarek Itani, an MTN staff is credited with making the first transaction on 25 th Sept, 2008 at 3:51pm. We officially launched the service on July […]

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