{"id":190120,"date":"2025-11-14T08:31:21","date_gmt":"2025-11-14T08:31:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=190120"},"modified":"2025-11-14T08:31:21","modified_gmt":"2025-11-14T08:31:21","slug":"pesalink-wants-to-be-kenyas-digital-payments-rail-can-it-pull-it-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=190120","title":{"rendered":"Pesalink wants to be Kenya\u2019s \u201cdigital payments rail.\u201d Can it pull it off?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Eight years after launch, Pesalink&#8217;s ability to simplify Kenya\u2019s payments landscape depends less on technology than on politics&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/techcabal.com\/2025\/10\/02\/pesalink-wants-kenyas-payments-rail\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eight years after launch, Pesalink&#8217;s ability to simplify Kenya\u2019s payments landscape depends less on technology<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":190121,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-190120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/190120-pesalink-wants-to-be-kenyas-digital-payments-rail-can-it-pull-it-off.jpg",1024,682,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/190120-pesalink-wants-to-be-kenyas-digital-payments-rail-can-it-pull-it-off-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/190120-pesalink-wants-to-be-kenyas-digital-payments-rail-can-it-pull-it-off-300x200.jpg",300,200,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/190120-pesalink-wants-to-be-kenyas-digital-payments-rail-can-it-pull-it-off-768x512.jpg",640,427,true],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/190120-pesalink-wants-to-be-kenyas-digital-payments-rail-can-it-pull-it-off.jpg",640,426,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/190120-pesalink-wants-to-be-kenyas-digital-payments-rail-can-it-pull-it-off.jpg",1024,682,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/190120-pesalink-wants-to-be-kenyas-digital-payments-rail-can-it-pull-it-off.jpg",1024,682,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/190120-pesalink-wants-to-be-kenyas-digital-payments-rail-can-it-pull-it-off.jpg",1024,682,false],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/190120-pesalink-wants-to-be-kenyas-digital-payments-rail-can-it-pull-it-off-825x575.jpg",825,575,true],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/190120-pesalink-wants-to-be-kenyas-digital-payments-rail-can-it-pull-it-off-590x410.jpg",590,410,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Jonathan Jeriah","author_link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?cat=38\" rel=\"category\">Politics<\/a>","tag_info":"Politics","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190120","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=190120"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190120\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/190121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=190120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=190120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=190120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}