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Kenya's WapiPay enters Canada with Money Services Business licence
WapiPay, a Nairobi-founded cross-border payments fintech built by twins Eddie and Paul Ndichu, secured a Money Services Business licence from FINTRAC, giving it its first regulated presence in North America and permission to offer foreign exchange, money transfer, payment services, and virtual currency transactions in Canada. The move extends a network that already covers Africa, Asia, the UK, and the Caribbean, following an earlier 2026 expansion into Jamaica, with Canada giving the company a regulated hub from which to serve diaspora remittance corridors into North America.
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