{"id":257847,"date":"2018-12-22T16:04:10","date_gmt":"2018-12-22T21:04:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/?guid=ffad3b09c8dd58b5859797d1a9c3f490"},"modified":"2019-02-08T13:31:55","modified_gmt":"2019-02-08T18:31:55","slug":"this-new-payment-app-is-capturing-the-ethiopian-market-ahead-of-m-pesa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/257847","title":{"rendered":"This new payment app is capturing the Ethiopian market ahead of M-Pesa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While M-Pesa is yet to make its foray into the Ethiopian market, a new money app called Amole is already capturing users in the country.<\/p>\n<p>According to Moneta Technologies CEO Yemiru Chanyalewin, Amole is getting up to 12,000 users daily. By November this year, the app had up to 350,000 users with a target to get 2.7 million users by June 2019.<\/p>\n<p>Chanyalew said Amole is focusing on merchant payments as well as peer-to-peer transfers to drive its growth in the country. [&#8230;] <a href=\"https:\/\/www.standardmedia.co.ke\/article\/2001307211\/the-tiny-money-app-running-ahead-of-m-pesa-in-ethiopia\">CONTINUE READING<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The tiny money App running ahead of M-Pesa in Ethiopia&nbsp;&nbsp;The StandardAmole has registered 350000 subscribers in five months.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":258738,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-257847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ethiopian-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Ethiopan_Birr.jpg?fit=773%2C742&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-154P","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257847","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=257847"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257847\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":258747,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257847\/revisions\/258747"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/258738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=257847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=257847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=257847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}