MTN MoMo completes cloud-native platform migration in four African markets

MTN Group Fintech and Ericsson have finished moving MTN Mobile Money onto a cloud-native architecture in Eswatini, Ghana, Rwanda and Uganda. Cameroon is next, with three more markets under discussion. What changed MTN Group Fintech and Ericsson have completed the MoMo Evolved migration in Eswatini, Ghana, Rwanda and Uganda, moving MTN Mobile Money in those markets off a legacy virtualised deployment and onto a standardised cloud-native build of the Ericsson Fintech Platform. The stated operational effect is up to 86% less CPU processing overhead and database load, and up to 80% faster API response times for developers, partners and merchants integrating with MoMo in the migrated markets. This is infrastructure modernisation rather than a change to MoMo's consumer product, tariffs or scheme rules, but it changes the platform that merchant and aggregator integrations run against and is presented as the foundation for MTN's Ambition 2030 digital financial services plan. A comparable project is under way in Cameroon, with Benin, the Republic of the Congo and Zambia described as in discussion.