PAYMENTS HOTGLOBAL INTELLIGENCEThe Paypers reports that pawaPay obtained a Payment Service Provider licence from the Bank of Mozambique through its local subsidiary Quidexplus Mozambique. The report says the licence enables direct merchant onboarding and access to the country’s M-Pesa, e-Mola and mKesh mobile-money services under local regulatory oversight.
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# pawaPay secures payment service provider licence in Mozambique > Evidence tier: B1 > Evidence type: Independent payments trade media report > Source: [The Paypers](https://thepaypers.com/payments/news/pawapay-secures-payment-service-provider-licence-in-mozambique) > Published: 2026-10-13 > Captured: 2026-10-13T12:34:00.143Z ## Source summary The Paypers reports that pawaPay obtained a Payment Service Provider licence from the Bank of Mozambique through its local subsidiary Quidexplus Mozambique. The report says the licence enables direct merchant onboarding and access to the country’s M-Pesa, e-Mola and mKesh mobile-money services under local regulatory oversight. ## Why it matters This is a reported local market-access development relevant to merchant collections and remittance providers. The report does not establish a newly live cross-border corridor, measured cost savings or settlement-speed improvements; no independent licence-register verification is claimed here. ## Key numbers No independently checkable key number was extracted from this report. ## Topics and entities - Industry lane: Cross-border market - Entities: pawaPay / Quidexplus Mozambique - Cross-border payments ## Evidence and credibility note Keep the article type and partner/sponsored label; use as discovery or corroboration, not sole proof of a company claim. Automatically extracted metadata and material claims should be checked against the linked original before investment use. Date evidence: Automatically verified from JSON-LD datePublished: 2026-10-13T08:49:19+00:00 ## First-party corroboration No directly corresponding A1 company announcement is currently linked. ## Original-source traceback [Open the original The Paypers report](https://thepaypers.com/payments/news/pawapay-secures-payment-service-provider-licence-in-mozambique) --- This is a structured Payments Hot Markdown source summary derived from external reporting. Use the original link above to read the publisher's article; copyright remains with the original publisher.