Digital money transfer provider, SimbaPay, has announced the launch of a new service on its platform to allow Kenyans living abroad to make M-Pesa PayBill payments.

A statement revealed that M-Pesa PayBill is an M-Pesa service that has previously only been available to Safaricom subscribers in Kenya and allows the subscribers to pay hundreds of vendors via M-Pesa.

However, with SimbaPay granting PayBill access to its customers, Kenyans abroad can now also pay hundreds of vendors and utility companies in Kenya directly via M-Pesa PayBill.

Nyasinga Onyancha, chief executive officer of SimbaPay said, "Our customers want to pay vendors in Kenya faster and without having to go through friends and family. This new product allows them to do just that, especially for time sensitive payments such as those to hospitals, stock brokers and the like."

SimbaPay customers will not require a Safaricom phone number or M-Pesa registration to pay vendors via PayBill as is currently the case for M-Pesa subscribers living in Kenya.

And Kenyans living in the UK with a bank account, debit card or credit card will be able to use the SimbaPay app to make M-Pesa PayBill payments from any mobile phone, tablet or computer. Transfers made using SimbaPay to M-Pesa PayBill numbers are credited instantly, according to the statement.

The service has already been rolled out to Kenyans living in the UK with other EU countries slated in the near future.