Kenya-based Cellulant was a pioneer in providing payment processing support to merchants based in Africa. The company opened for business nearly 20 years ago, offering consumers ringtones. Today, Cellulant’s direct sales force focuses on large, multinational, regional and local merchants. It offers those customers global brand card and local-market-only card and alternative payment method (APM) acceptance services. Local market acceptance includes connections to 45 mobile network operators (MNOs) in Africa, which provide online merchants the ability to reach more than 150 million consumer...