Since March last year, Angola has started to count on a mobile payment service. This year Xikila Money completed its first year of activity and already has a good number of customers.
The service Xikila Money is a Business Unit of Postal Bank, presents a balance in line with expectations at the time of its launch. Currently, the service counts four agencies, three in Luanda and one in Huambo, and 156 kiosks, predicting to reach 200 the number of kiosks by the end of the first half of this year.
Second Dalmo Silva (Director of Marketing for Xikila Money) explained that "The profile of Xikila Money Client is very heterogeneous, because it has managed to capture customers with different needs, from customers who are accessing the banking system for the first time to the most sophisticated customers who use this solution, because of their practicality and availability, for day-to-day situations like paying the television service or charging the balance of the mobile phone. "
170.000 is already the 12 customers who rely on this Business Unit of Postal Bank, during the 30 first months of activity, was also launched the network of correspondents who already have more than XNUMX Agents Xikila Money. The ambition now is to extend the medium-term presence throughout the region of Luanda and also in all the provincial headquarters of the country.
