Wari Senegal

Overview

Wari Senegal is Senegalese mobile money + retail remittance + cross-border money transfer + CSI Crédit du Sénégal Senegalese-Mauritanian financial services group + Kabirou Mbodje founder controlling + one of West Africa's largest mobile money + remittance networks across 60+ countries via retail agent network ^{1, Senegal report}.

History

2008 — Wari founded by Kabirou Mbodje as Senegalese mobile money + retail remittance + cross-border money transfer distinctive West African mobile money + remittance heritage.

Ownership & operator

Operating entity: Wari (Senegalese mobile money + retail remittance + cross-border money transfer; CSI Crédit du Sénégal Senegalese-Mauritanian financial services group + Kabirou Mbodje founder controlling).

Major shareholders: CSI Crédit du Sénégal Senegalese-Mauritanian financial services group + Kabirou Mbodje founder controlling.

Regulators: BCEAO West African Central Bank + national regulators across 60+ countries.

Technical integration

Wari mobile app (iOS + Android) + wari.com online + Wari retail agent network across Senegal + 60+ African + European + North American countries; SN IBAN + Wari QR + cross-border Wari remittance corridors.

Implementations & partners

Major West African + global mobile money + remittance competitors: Orange Money (Orange Money; Orange Group French telecom African + MENA mobile money; ~91M+ Orange Money users across 17 African + MENA countries) + MTN Mobile Money (MTN Mobile Money MoMo; MTN Group African mobile money; Africa's largest mobile money network by users; ~75M+ MTN MoMo users across 16 African countries) + Airtel Money (Airtel Money Africa; Bharti Airtel Africa mobile money operations across 14 African countries) + Moov Money (Moov Money; Maroc Telecom Group MENA mobile money) + M-Pesa (M-PESA; Safaricom + Vodacom + Vodafone African mobile money) + Western Union (Western Union; NYSE: WU; US-based global money transfer + remittance) + MoneyGram (MoneyGram International; US-based global money transfer + remittance) + Remitly (Remitly; NASDAQ: RELY; US-based mobile-first global money transfer + remittance) + WorldRemit (Zepz) (WorldRemit Zepz; UK-based mobile-first global money transfer + remittance).

Regulators: BCEAO + national regulators across 60+ countries.

Status

Active, Senegalese mobile money + retail remittance + cross-border money transfer + CSI Crédit du Sénégal Senegalese-Mauritanian financial services group + Kabirou Mbodje founder controlling + one of West Africa's largest mobile money + remittance networks across 60+ countries via retail agent network ^{1, 2}.

Sources

• 1 Wari — official
• 2 Wari — Wikipedia
• ^{Senegal report} In-corpus: reports/countries/SN-senegal.md

Source

Biography extracted from wari-senegal.md. See matrix.md for standards-support matrix if present.