Comviva has been recognized at the CommsMEA Awards. The company has been “highly commended” in two categories. These include the Business Service Initiative of the Year for the Orange Money Rapido service and the Most Innovative New Service of the Year for Orange Money Rapido service. In May 2018, Orange launched Orange Money Rapido, Mali’s first closed-loop NFC payment service that enables merchants and consumers to transact digitally by just tapping a NFC sticker over NFC POS.