{"id":217316,"date":"2026-04-04T09:48:57","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T09:48:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=217316"},"modified":"2026-04-04T09:48:57","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T09:48:57","slug":"sitoyo-lopokoiyit-the-man-who-reimagined-m-pesa-leaves-for-absa-bank","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=217316","title":{"rendered":"Sitoyo Lopokoiyit, the man who reimagined M-PESA, leaves for Absa Bank"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Absa Bank Kenya, the country&#8217;s fifth-biggest bank, announced on Wednesday that the executive who spent the last five years building one of Africa\u2019s most powerful fintech platforms will be joining as Chief Executive for Personal and Private Banking, effective April 1, 2026&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/techcabal.com\/2026\/02\/11\/sitoyo-lopokoiyit-reimagined-m-pesa-leaves-absa-bank\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Absa Bank Kenya, the country&#8217;s fifth-biggest bank, announced on Wednesday that the executive who spent<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":217317,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-217316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-africa"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/217316-sitoyo-lopokoiyit-the-man-who-reimagined-m-pesa-leaves-for-absa-bank.jpg",1052,714,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/217316-sitoyo-lopokoiyit-the-man-who-reimagined-m-pesa-leaves-for-absa-bank-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/217316-sitoyo-lopokoiyit-the-man-who-reimagined-m-pesa-leaves-for-absa-bank-300x204.jpg",300,204,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/217316-sitoyo-lopokoiyit-the-man-who-reimagined-m-pesa-leaves-for-absa-bank-768x521.jpg",640,434,true],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/217316-sitoyo-lopokoiyit-the-man-who-reimagined-m-pesa-leaves-for-absa-bank-1024x695.jpg",640,434,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/217316-sitoyo-lopokoiyit-the-man-who-reimagined-m-pesa-leaves-for-absa-bank.jpg",1052,714,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/217316-sitoyo-lopokoiyit-the-man-who-reimagined-m-pesa-leaves-for-absa-bank.jpg",1052,714,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/217316-sitoyo-lopokoiyit-the-man-who-reimagined-m-pesa-leaves-for-absa-bank-1024x695.jpg",1024,695,true],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/217316-sitoyo-lopokoiyit-the-man-who-reimagined-m-pesa-leaves-for-absa-bank-825x575.jpg",825,575,true],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/217316-sitoyo-lopokoiyit-the-man-who-reimagined-m-pesa-leaves-for-absa-bank-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=40\" rel=\"category\">Africa<\/a>","tag_info":"Africa","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217316","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=217316"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217316\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/217317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=217316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=217316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=217316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}