Customers of Vodafone Fiji can now expand purchases done through the M-PAiSA platform to international reach. This comes after the company officially launched its M-PAiSA Mastercard product at the Grand Pacific Hotel.

With over 580,000 registered M-PAiSA mobile wallet holders, 52 percent of these customers are women. For the first time, many women (particularly those in rural areas) now have a financial account of their own, and this has been deemed as a great win for women’s empowerment and inclusion by the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Trade, Cooperatives, SMEs and Communications, Manoa Kamikamica

While officially launching the product, DPM Kamikamica congratulated Vodafone on the milestone achievement, stating that M-PAiSA becomes an open-loop payment system, and is now part of the global Scheme Card Payment network.

“This means registered M-PAiSA users that acquire an M-PAiSA Mastercard will be able to use their M-PAiSA balance and make online payments on E-commerce platforms for their favorite Fijian Made products and services seamlessly. Registered users traveling overseas can also use their M-PAiSA Mastercard to make payments outside Fiji and subscribe to popular entertainment channels.”

“Mastercard is accepted in 250 countries and over 100 million merchants worldwide – making M-PAiSA a global payment platform. I extend my hearty congratulations to the Vodafone team for becoming a licensed Mastercard Issuer. Being granted a Global Payment card license is a valiant achievement for Vodafone M-PAiSA – and is a ground-breaking payment service to Fijians,” DPM Kamikamica stated.

Minister for Lands & Mineral Resources, Hon. Filimoni Vosarogo and the Minister for Agriculture & Waterways, Hon. Vatimi Rayalu were also present at the event.